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That's not true either...
But it usually is a bad idea to fill a harddrive to capacity if it's your windows drive, because the swap/pagefile is on that drive, and if it hasn't reserved that space specifically then you're gonna notice some slowdown. Not to mention the fact that if it needs to add files or use temporary directories, you're SOL. So yes, it's good to leave a bit of room...but it can't kill a drive.
Actually, I had 2 corrupt Hard disk problem, 1 PC and 1 Toshiba Laptop. I remember the technician said All because I loaded nearly full capacity of the Harddisk. I'm not expert in computer, so I really don't know if it's true of false, but after that I never load my hard disk more than 75% of it's capacity. I've been changing several times and never had similar problem ever since, now I'm still using my 4 years old VAIO Sony, and 2 years old HP PC. I begin to worry and planning to upgrade my PC because the capacity is already surpass 80%.
Sideburns, I'm glad you can join the conversation because what I was saying about Hard disk problem is 100% pure from my own experience based, with your expertise in this area, I believe you can give much better explanation than me.