Smart safe Computing or a good way to kill both hard-dives ?

Hi I have seen set up that was interesting
Woman I know Installed Windows updated it installed Firefox CCleaner Defraggler.

Installed updated scanned and uninstalled one at a time with Pervix hit man pro SAS,Malware bytes, Avira free , Emsisoft Emergency Kit , installed a Image backup program
Backed up the computer to a portable hard-drive incremental backup on demand With Windows updated firefox CCleaner Defraggler only left on it .
She restores the computer every morning to the clean image from the backup drive the only thing she adds to the image is updated for windows and firefox CCleaner Defraggler .
So I was wondering Smart safe Computing or a good way to kill both hard-drives ?

Is this total over kill ?
And given the amount of restores 365 a year how long before she needs new hard-drives?

 

Total would be an understatement.

 

Tell her that unless she wants a dead hard drive (maybe 2), only restore when problems occur.

 

TwistedWire,

I wouldn't do it but I don't think it is dangerous. My test computer has put up with 5 to 10 restores a day for the last few years. No issues.

 

I kick the living daylights out of a couple of my h/drives, although not quite once/day, with restores and even partitioning operations with no ill effects yet.

 

And totally unnecessary.

 

Tell her to use a product like Returnil if she is really obsessed with keeping a "like-new" hard drive.

 

From Google's paper "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" (hxxp://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf):

 

Thanks for the reply's

Well she has been doing this for over year or so,
I did say to her she should use Returnil or Rollback Rx but she says that
she is happy with her set up as it is , and so 365 + restores.
and as far as i can see her pc is ruining better and faster than mine.
but i would not do what she has done and it may be her undoing or not.

Again thanks for the information