Utility to burn in new hard drive?

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

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.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:42:49 +0100, Joe S
wrote:

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


Run the HDD manufacturers diagnostics, including the full
read/write surface scan. Same for scandisk, surface
testing.

Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.

As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really, at
most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics if
they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

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kony writes:
As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really, at
most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics if
they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

If the drive has a jumper labelled SS (Self Seek), this
will give it a jolly good work through with just the power
connected. Unfortunately, this has become quite rare on
disks nowadays, whereas it was once quite standard.

--
Andrew Gabriel

Andrew Gabriel wrote
kony writes

As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really,
at most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics
if they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

If the drive has a jumper labelled SS (Self Seek), this
will give it a jolly good work through with just the power
connected. Unfortunately, this has become quite rare on
disks nowadays, whereas it was once quite standard.

Virtually all can do that now using smart, invoked with something like smartctl.

I would use CX command (random seeks untill stoped) from MHDD

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Alan Kakareka
Data Recovery Service
786-253-8286 cell
http://www.247recovery.com
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote
kony writes

As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really,
at most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics
if they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

If the drive has a jumper labelled SS (Self Seek), this
will give it a jolly good work through with just the power
connected. Unfortunately, this has become quite rare on
disks nowadays, whereas it was once quite standard.

Virtually all can do that now using smart, invoked with something like
smartctl.

Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.


I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

Osiris wrote
Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.


I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

Yep, that's what SMART is about.

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:51:04 +1000, "Rod Speed"
Gave us:

Osiris wrote
Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.


I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

Yep, that's what SMART is about.

IDE controllers, a circuit on the HD (not the MOBO interface) has
already done this with some manufacturers even before SMART came out.

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Phat Bytestard wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:51:04 +1000, "Rod Speed"
Gave us:

Osiris wrote
Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.


I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

Yep, that's what SMART is about.

IDE controllers, a circuit on the HD (not the MOBO interface) has
already done this with some manufacturers even before SMART came out.

Nonsense. HDDs can sore disgnostice, but they are servers, i.e.
they do not push diagnostic data. It has to be polled.

Arno