Does my Ps4 break when I install games?

Moin, I performed 36 installations on my Ps4 and am now afraid that the hard drive will soon break because of it. So through overload. Is that possible after 36 installations or not?

No.

It's just a piece of hardware that can store a limited amount of data. More is not possible. In the worst case, the system no longer runs properly, but is defective in the sense that something burns out is not possible.

No. Installation are usually not a reason for defective hard drives. If it runs out of space, there will only be a warning.

So there can be defects after 36 installations?

Ok thanks then I'm reassured

In this question one would have to differentiate fundamentally whether the drive is an HDD (magnetic hard disk) or an SSD.

The weak points of an HDD, apart from its control electronics, are mainly the storage of its moving parts; So motor and the swiveling read head carrier. The magnetic disks themselves, however, can be erased and rewritten almost as often as desired.

With SSD drives, the memory cells in the chips really only have a certain (average) cycle stability for deletions and rewritings, depending on the technology and production structure… Pure reading work would be irrelevant.

With good garbage collection and good wear leveling, however, even with an SSD, the individual memory cells and their addressing sectors wear relatively evenly, which means that, depending on the technology, between a few 1,000 and only a few 100 erase / rewrite cycles would be possible in principle.

Even an SSD with specified 500 write / erase cycles per memory cell (block) would have to write / erase / rewrite up to 150 to approximately 150 to a test wear load in optimal block utilization with optimized wear leveling at 400 GB of partition size freely usable for the user Cope with 200 TB of operation volume before the first blocks fail. (pure read operations are harmless for an SSD)

Thanks for the detailed answer. It is an HDD.

My pleasure. A normal HDD has its main wear characteristics in relation to its active operating hours, temperatures and, above all, when the motor is active and read head controls because of the technical service life limitation of ball bearings.

An 08/15 standard drive without special 24/7 "longlife optimization" should be replaced as a precautionary measure for security and prevention, however, depending on the intensity of use, after about 3 to 5 (at the latest about 7 to 10) years. These things hardly cost anything per TB these days.

In the 36 reinstallations of their own, however, I don't see any particular problem if the drive doesn't already have the appropriate operating hours under its belt.

There can always be defects, but that has nothing to do with the fact that you do a few installations. Because everything you do is what is constantly being done anyway. Data is written to and read from magnetic disks. That is the sole purpose of a hard drive and that is exactly what you do. The panels are designed to do something like this.