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Title: Testing hard drives
Post by: Valiant on 06 July, 2020, 08:56:57 pm

I've been going through my old cupboards and finding loads of old 1, 2 and 3TB drives. Most are from old NAS upgrades. What's the best free or cheap software to test drives before selling?

Title: Re: Testing hard drives
Post by: Kim on 06 July, 2020, 08:59:48 pm

Something like Ultimate Boot CD or Hiren's Boot CD would be my starting point.

Title: Re: Testing hard drives
Post by: DaveJ on 06 July, 2020, 09:41:51 pm

Disks on the Ubuntu Live CD/USB

Title: Re: Testing hard drives
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 07 July, 2020, 09:37:55 am

I use this bootable USB Linux distro:
https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/

It has lots of excellen ttest utilities including https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Title: Re: Testing hard drives
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 July, 2020, 04:58:20 pm

Would doing a surface test for bad sector be a bad thing?  Or would a secure wipe deal with all that?