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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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Re:Yes. I mean no. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-23 05:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Let me guess,,, if it sank to the bottom it was a good drive, but if it floated it was a bad drive and needed to be burnt at the stake.
Re:smartmontools by Deekin_Scalesinger · 2012-12-23 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

This should be modded up for your username alone lol

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Re:SSDs by drsmithy · 2012-12-23 09:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Holy crap. Twenty 3T spindles in a single array ? What do you do to de-stress ? Run between cars on a highway ?