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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
DaveW wrote:
You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive. True if you don't care whether the drive works. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Joe S writes:
Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I start to use it? Hard drives do not require any burning in. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
"Joe S" wrote in message ... Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I start to use it? maybe try an anal burner ? |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
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 ? |
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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? Defining "burn in" as compressing a weeks normal operation into an , say, hour ? Is it "generally accepted", that a virgin HD will only decease within 1 hour or after 5 years of operation ? |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Don Freeman writes:
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. Vendors have already done that. Prompt failures after their testing are rare. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Matt writes:
True if you don't care whether the drive works. You know within seconds if the drive works. "Burning it in" accomplishes nothing. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Osiris writes:
Is it "generally accepted", that a virgin HD will only decease within 1 hour or after 5 years of operation ? With devices such as disk drives, if they don't fail within an hour or two, they'll probably run for years. Vendors exercise drives to reduce the incidence of the former. As a result, drives that survive a very brief infancy will likely remain reliable for a very long time. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
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. |
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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Mxsmanic wrote
Osiris writes Is it "generally accepted", that a virgin HD will only decease within 1 hour or after 5 years of operation ? With devices such as disk drives, if they don't fail within an hour or two, they'll probably run for years. Vendors exercise drives to reduce the incidence of the former. No they dont. As a result, drives that survive a very brief infancy will likely remain reliable for a very long time. Yes, only a small percentage fail soon. |
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