Tool to check Hard Drive health?

[cw42]

Are there any tools to check the "health" of a hd? I own two Seagate 7200.8's, and i'm worried about their reliability since alot of people at Storagereview have a poor rating on them.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Some drive manufacturers provide utilties that checks drive health. Do you have SMART enabled?

 

[duragezic]

Check Seagate's site. They have an online scan as well as downloadable utils to check health.

I have a 7200.8 250GB that lost its partition one day and now when I run the extended-scan in Seagate Tools, its come back with some sort of file system error. This is after creating a new partition and formatting it... so I may try to RMA still.