Can a hard disk be damaged by low space?

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  1. Ryck

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    Hello Guys

    I have three hard drives. 1 of one terabyte (partitioned) and two of 500GB.
    The 1 Terabyte on the C: I have 30 gb space.
    On the remaining partition 5 GB, on the other 500GB disk 4 GB.
    Then my question is that, being left with only 5 GB the disks that do not have the operating system, can be damaged? is it necessary to leave a larger margin?
    I hope my question is understood and thanks in advance.
     
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  3. phumb-reh

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    Short answer: No.

    If it's a HDD (as in not solid state) then it makes no difference. Unless running "low on space" implies it's constantly being written to.

    If it's a SSD then also no, _but_ some cheaper models reserve some spare space for caching, so if they're completely full you might get a performance hit.

    Apart from those: you're good.
     
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  4. Ryck

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    Thanks for answering dude!
    I was just worried and didn't know whether to delete something. If it is HDD. Well, I'm more at ease.
     
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    If you want to defragment your hard drives you need at least 10% free space.
    1TB minus 10% = 100 GB.
    It's not very good to slam the disks so full.
     
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