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I will be getting a new 1 tb hard drive soon and I am wondering how to go about testing the drive to see if it will fail prematurely, so I know not to put any data on it.

Are there any programs and/or methods to test a hard drive?

How do you go about testing a new hard drive?

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I wouldn't mate, you test it that way and it'll probably fail prematurely anyway

 

I've never heard of 'burning a hard drive in' before.

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I will be getting a new 1 tb hard drive soon and I am wondering how to go about testing the drive to see if it will fail prematurely, so I know not to put any data on it.

 

If you backup, that shouldn't be of concern. Just install the harddrive and use it as normal.

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I will be getting a new 1 tb hard drive soon and I am wondering how to go about testing the drive to see if it will fail prematurely, so I know not to put any data on it.

Are there any programs and/or methods to test a hard drive?

How do you go about testing a new hard drive?

Thanks

 

There's almost no way to detect how long a drive will last if it's fresh out of the box. It generally just happens. Though usually a degradation of write/read speeds over time can be an indication.

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Wow,this is the first time I'm hearing a HDD 'burn in'..I wonder what else pc components that need a 'burn in'..

 

OP,if it works the first time,then it's all good. If not, then throw it into the sea. LOL

 

 

/jk. Go back and exchange that sucker hdd. :D

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