I use a pretty small SSD and a big HDD in my PC
If I remember right, data is stored in little "gaps" (if you call it this way) on the disk's and if new data is overwriting the old files, they are just stored on a different place on the disk (please correct me if I'm wrong), so at some time the place is being used up and the HDD is coming "to it's end of life".
So my question is, if i use a big outsourcing file on the HDD, does it's lifespan decrease faster than normal? I would think so because there are many files that are writen onto the disks and then after use in an application they are not being touched any more...
I don't know if this is the right forum for that, but maybe somebody could give me some answers