Thread: Utility to burn in new hard drive?
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Old July 27th 06, 10:50 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Rod Speed
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Default Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Joe S wrote:

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a
new hard drive before I start to use it?

No point in doing that.

You can use something like HDTach if you want,
or use smartctl to run the smart test mode forever.