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Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives?
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?"
> Who cares about HDDs anymore these days?
Anyone with a need for a massive amount of storage space.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.