Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives?

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:22AM from the just-bite-the-corner-a-little dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Any Slashdot thread about drive failure is loaded with good advice about EOL — but what about the beginning? Do you normally test your new purchases as thoroughly as you test old, suspect drives? Has your testing followed the proverbial 'bathtub' curve of a lot of early failures, but with those that survive the first month surviving for years? And have you had any return problems with new failed drives, because you re-partitioned it, or 'ran Linux,' or used stress-test apps?"

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lol by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-23 05:24 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Yes. I shove them up my ass and if I cum within 5 seconds I know they'll last forever.
Yes, it's happened. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-23 05:30 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I've had one unfortunate incident where a vendor has refused to RMA a new drive, which had failed, as I'd apparently voided the warranty by installing BSD on it.
According to them, their hard drives were guaranteed only if the end user was running windows.