Does a hard drive degrade if we always write to the same directory?

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Published on 2012-12-03T16:24:05Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 17:08 UTC
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I have a very heavy I/O application that is constantly receiving data through the network and writing to a specific directory on the HDD. Then, the application need to load the files from that specific place. One of my clients has been experiencing slowness and when I try to access the directory it takes quite long before I can see the content.

My gut feeling is the HDD is degrading due to high I/O for a couple of years and I'm thinking of changing the HDD. Is there a benefit to write to multiple directories instead of using always the same?

BTW he is using Windows XP.

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