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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is there any kind of testing I should do on a manufacturer recertified HDD before use? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I ordered a drive from serverpartdeals and was wondering if theres anything I should do beyond plugging the drive in to test it

Should I do a full format to check for bad sectors? Or is that bad and or a waste of time?

CystalDiskInfo wouldn't help I assume because the SMART is wiped right?

Any tips or advice is appreciated

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In unraid world, we preclear our disks before adding them to the pool. Not only does it zero the disk so it doesn't screw with parity, it also 'tests' it. Helps catch still-born, and early death drives. There are other tools to burn-in disks; I think the old spin-rite can be used for it too.