Test harddrives

[Karzlo]

Hi

 

I recently started working for a company that buys and sells new, used and refurbished hardware ranging from full servers, ram, harddrives, raid controller cards etc..

On a daily basis we sell a lot of new and refurbished harddrives mainly from HP and IBM but once in a while we also sell used harddrives for exampe drives for older HP EVA systems. In general we want to avoid shipping potentially defect harddrives to our customers and the way we would like to avoid that is by testing the harddrives for example for bad sectors. However that has come across as quite a challenge since we haven't been able to find suitable software. I've tried Harddisk sentinel which should be able to do surface tests on harddrives (even in RAID configurations) but when I start the surface test it never begins. I'm dealing with the same issue on my own home computer with normal harddrives in a non-raid configuration.

 

So to sum it all up. We are looking for software that can help us test our used drives (mainly bad sectors) before we ship them to our customers. How do we do this?

 

[Arty]

Hi

 

I recently started working for a company that buys and sells new, used and refurbished hardware ranging from full servers, ram, harddrives, raid controller cards etc..

On a daily basis we sell a lot of new and refurbished harddrives mainly from HP and IBM but once in a while we also sell used harddrives for exampe drives for older HP EVA systems. In general we want to avoid shipping potentially defect harddrives to our customers and the way we would like to avoid that is by testing the harddrives for example for bad sectors. However that has come across as quite a challenge since we haven't been able to find suitable software. I've tried Harddisk sentinel which should be able to do surface tests on harddrives (even in RAID configurations) but when I start the surface test it never begins. I'm dealing with the same issue on my own home computer with normal harddrives in a non-raid configuration.

 

So to sum it all up. We are looking for software that can help us test our used drives (mainly bad sectors) before we ship them to our customers. How do we do this?

HD TUNE?

http://www.hdtune.com/

[Karzlo]

HD Tune could possibly help us out.. However it doesn't mention anything about RAID support on their website. Needless to say I'll give it a go tomorrow.

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

Hey there Karzlo Welcome to the community!

 

I would recommend using both a diagnostic tool provided by the manufacturer and a third-party tool to get the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drives and then going through each value to see if the drive is good to use or not. Contacting the manufacturers of these drives for some advice could also be a good idea. 

 

I'd also suggest looking at some professional data recovery websites and see what the guys there use.

 

Captain_WD.

[leadeater]

Seagate SeaTools would be worth a look for disks that are OEM/Rebadge disks, which most serve disks are from HP and IBM.