We all have favorite tunes and albums, which we access more frequently from external USB, RAID or internal drives. Can frequent access of the same file result in "wear", ie. corruption of the file at some level audible in playback? I have not experienced this yet, and don't even know if it is physically possible. But I get in little musical ruts, as do we all, and might listen to the same track 2-3 times a day for a few days if it sticks in my head. I am finishing a huge rip project, 430 CD's to two IOMEGA Ego 250 usb drives (one off site for backup safety sake). The drives are quite zippy, and stream flacs with no problem. My computer savvy, however, comes to a screeching halt confronted with the black box that is my hard drive (or bright red box, for the Ego's!). Oh mighty wizards of Geekdom, hear my plea - does repeated access of the same physical address on an internal or external hard drive result in uneven wear or file corruption, analogous to the way repeated playing of vinyl tracks eventually degrades their sonic quality?
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