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?"

1 of 348 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:SSDs by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-23 06:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Let's see. I have three drives connected to this laptop. The internal, which is 1TB, an external that is 3TB and another external that is 4TB.

Let me know when I can buy an SSD for $100 that matches the size of any of those.