

- #BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH INSTALL#
- #BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH FULL#
- #BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH PORTABLE#
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#BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH PORTABLE#
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#BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH INSTALL#
You might want to install smartctl or smartmontools first. If any of these have gone up, your disk has some bad blocks already and so might prove untrustworthy.Īfter this I run an extended SMART test again.

So before and after this I ran a smart test, and check the reallocated and current pending sector count. This command will probably not actually show up any bad blocks on a new disk, since
#BEST WAY TO CHECK HARD DISK HEALTH FULL#
The badblock command writes the disk full with a pattern, then reads the blocks again to see if the pattern is actually there, and will repeat this with 4 different patterns. If you decide you want to test these disks I would recommend running a badblocks scan and an extended SMART test on the brand new hard disk. I do not test every new disk I buy, only on 'refurbished' disks, which I do not completely trust. So I decided I would now test the new replacement before putting it in production. After sending in a failed disk, the replacement disk failed in my NAS after 3 days.
