reliability

[Master_Pain]

What is a good hard drive program to test a drive and make sure its reliable? I just got a Seagate 500gb and I want to test its reliability before I put all my files on it. I am going to use it as a storage drive, so I wanna make sure its not defective

 

[Sinster]

Look for Ultimate Boot disk and use the SeaTools thats on it to check it out... In fact I'm using Seatools to write zero's to my damn Hard Drive as I'm typing this. Hopefully this will fix my errors..

 

[gwai lo]

You can't really "test reliability" so to speak...just plug it in and use it. You can test to see if your transfer rates and seek times should be where they should be, but there isn't a memtest for hard drives. If someone designed a program that could predict when your hard drive would fail......

I don't know, that would be pretty amazing.

 

[Master_Pain]

well, i will have to try out the seatools then

 

[Whatsisname]

If your shit is important then its time you invest in some additional harddrives and get some redundancy, and setup a backup plan.