I am not creating any panic here sir my none of laptops wont last than 1 - 2 yrs at best and if i use this kind of read write tool for data feed case then sure it affects life of Hard disk technically none can deny this.
Are you using this data tools last 9 - 10 yrs old not right? at last if data is lost for me it worth more than i can spend on basic data feeds i need , it is up to users what to choose , its just my view i am a successful trader and capable of spending for decent data not worried much about this kind of tools and just shared my view it may cost users more if they lost hdd and their data than saving some penny from this kind of unprofessional tools
FXGOOD
u may be a successful trader, u use professional data feed, u use a laptop which never last more than 1-2 years.
but i use a desktop - athlon cpu - and it is running for last three years efficiently. my hdd is from seagate (normally i use seagate 1). also i have another machine ( this 1 also has athlon cpu) and its from 2003 and still running. the hdd is also from seagate of 40gb and it still functions after so many read write operations . so the questions is not of aggressive read write operation.
another thing - u do not understand - the professional data feed stuff - it has also to be saved in the hdd - means the read write operation ( may be in ur case it is cloud computing - the data feed residing in the data feed's storage and u r only accessing it). so the main thing is that u have to store - write the data in hdd and when doing analysis u have to fetch it - read operation.
last thing - try to invest in a good quality laptop - of the highest quality costing a bit more than u r using now and it will last for some more time ( greater than 1-2 years).
so never ever have this type of notion - read write operation will destroy the hdd, proferssional data feed is better than free data feed( professional 1 also has to be developed like the free 1 and they never came from pluto or neptune)
sr