Does having your page file on decrease the life expectancy of your hard drive?

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Published on 2012-10-01T14:49:55Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 15:42 UTC
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If I have my page file turned on in Windows as opposed to having it turned off as shown below:

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Would having the page file turned on decrease the life expectancy on my Hard Drive? If so, how much would the life decrease say with regular use? (4 hours a day)

I'm thinking it would decrease some just because there would be more writing to the hard drive, but I wasn't sure if it would be too negligible to even matter.

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