Best practice for Zips and harddrive life span

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I'm looking to try and reduce the wear/tear on an HDD in my computer which I use to store 7Zip files on.

I'm wondering if its better to copy the zip off the HHD and paste it into a different drive and then unzip it; or if its better to unzip the file in place and simply target a different drive as the destination.

Or if if would make no difference at all.




I know in some ways its a lottery with HDD lifespan, but if there one approach that generates less use on the drive and thus less wear and tear, I'd be interested to know.

 

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Thanks guys - good to know that I was concerned over nothing.

first of all, how much data is there your storing?

About 3.5TB on a 4TB HDD. The actual zips themselves range from a few hundred mb up to around 1GB at most more or less (might be one or two bigger but not often).