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Old July 27th 06, 10:42 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Joe S
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Default 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?
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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.


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Old July 27th 06, 10:59 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
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Default Utility to burn in new hard drive?

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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Old July 27th 06, 11:18 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Andrew Gabriel
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Default Utility to burn in new hard drive?

In article ,
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.

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Old July 27th 06, 11:20 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?

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.


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Old July 27th 06, 11:35 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Alan Kakareka
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I would use CX command (random seeks untill stoped) from MHDD

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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.



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Old July 27th 06, 11:41 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Sjouke Burry
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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?

Scandisk with multiple surface scan??
(after you format it)
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Old July 27th 06, 11:59 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
DaveW
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You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.

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



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Old July 28th 06, 12:18 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
Don Freeman
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Default Utility to burn in new hard drive?


"DaveW" wrote in message
news
You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.

The theory being that burning it in will reveal faults (that won't show up
until used a bit) in areas that can then be locked away from use. Or, if a
significant number, trigger the return of the drive to the vendor.


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Old July 28th 06, 12:45 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.engineering.electrical
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Default Utility to burn in new hard drive?

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Joe S wrote:
Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?


Not really. Infant mortality for HDDs is pretty low these days, so
burn-in does not help much. Same is generally true for semiconductors.
It used to be different.

Hiwever if you really want to burn in, then just put the drive
under higher load for some time. I used to do this by compiling
Linux kernels in a loop.

Arno


 




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