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Testing New Drives

Aikouka

Aikouka

Lifer
I bought a few new drives (2 HDDs, 1 SSD), and I'm curious what everyone does to test their hardware before trusting their data to it.

For HDDs, I typically just run a full Checkdisk on them from within Windows, and as long as it reports no issues, I'll give it a green light. SSDs, I've never been sure what to do with. I know Intel's SSD Tools has tests that you can run, but not all of my SSDs are Intel.

To note, my latest drives are 2x 2TB Seagate, 1x Crucial M4. I think Seagate has a set of tools that I can run as well that might be worthwhile.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
 
I do the windows checkdisk on spinning drives (surface scan), otherwise not much can be done to test SSD's given they hide the under lying media from you. Stressing it only loads up the processor to do what it should be doing. Heat does not effect them given the lower power draw and using reporting tools can work, but since I purchased my second SSD, most refuse to work when they detect two SSDs.
 
I run a Smart diagnostic for 24 hrs. Some, like hddscan, can do this even for external HDDs, which can greatly speed up testomg pf USB 2.0 HDDs.
 
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