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Got some Seagate Barracuda's from Amazon today - is there a utility that can perform a rigorous test to ensure the drives are in good condition?

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You can use CrystalDiskMark to test its speed and CrystalDiskInfo to read out its SMART data, which shows stuff like the HDD health, power-on count/time, etc.

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1 minute ago, kewtz said:

Got some Seagate Barracuda's from Amazon today - is there a utility that can perform a rigorous test to ensure the drives are in good condition?

DriveGenius.

Has sector by sector checking.

Very solid (though a confusing UI, use with care)

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12 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

DriveGenius.

Has sector by sector checking.

Very solid (though a confusing UI, use with care)

Do you have a link for this? I'm seeing listings for OSX but not windows.

Paid?

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9 minutes ago, kewtz said:

Do you have a link for this? I'm seeing listings for OSX but not windows.

Paid?

I apologise, I am a moron

It's DiskGenuis

 

https://www.diskgenius.com/

 

Also, Seagate makes some good tools for testing their own drives.

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I'd use Seagate's own tools. Depends on how much confidence you want, but you could use that to do a full drive write, followed by a full drive read. If it passes both, chances are it's good. Just passing the tool in itself isn't the end, I'd check SMART afterwards to make sure there are no pending or bad sectors, since they can be silently mapped out.

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