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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
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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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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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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
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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 |
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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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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
I would use CX command (random seeks untill stoped) from MHDD
-- Alan Kakareka Data Recovery Service 786-253-8286 cell http://www.247recovery.com -- "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... 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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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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Utility to burn in new hard drive?
You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.
-- DaveW ---------------- "Joe S" wrote in message ... Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I start to use it? |
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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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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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