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Old 01-11-2010, 03:56 AM  
rowan
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I wouldn't worry, hard drives should easily handle that. If you have AHCI enabled (native SATA mode) then multiple tasks accessing the drive actually improve performance a little, because the drive (rather than the OS) decides in which order to perform the reads and writes on various parts of the disk.

The fact that you're backing up your data is probably more relevant than worrying about stressing the drive.
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