Is running memtest once a year bad for hardware

[defying this land]

Hi all,

 

We have a lot of computers that do daily testing on newly produced devices.

This testing makes these computers heavy in use.

 

Now for a yearly maintenance plan we want to schedule several tests witch include:

running: - chkdsk /f

              - sfc /scannow

              - Memtest86+ with at least 1 pass

              - Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic - extended test on our HDD to scan for bad sectors and disk problems

 

Now I got informed that running Memtest could cause that hardware to fail or function incorrectly afterwards.

At this point I am already suggesting swapping the HDD to SSD where possible.

 

So my question is running Memtest a cause of functioning hardware to fail?

 

Kind regards

[YoungBlade]

All Memtest does is use each part of the RAM section by section to make sure that everything addressable is able to work as intended. Basically, it puts various patterns of zeros and ones into memory and then reads the memory to make sure that the pattern was correctly stored and can be correctly read. This is just what computers do regularly, but more systematic and complete to check for errors. Nothing Memtest does is special in a way that would damage hardware.

[defying this land]

ok thanks for response, I was not 100% sure this would not damage any hardware.