yordan 10 Report post Posted November 6, 2012 write and verify data until the disk is full (but this takes a lot of time and I wouldn't know what tool to use)Just 7zipt a big folder.Then add the ZIP file inside the folder, and restart. And put the zipfile inside the folder. This will grow exponentially. Then a simple verify. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted November 6, 2012 @manuleka: in most cases that's normal. Those smaller drives park their heads a lot quicker and more often than regular drives in order to protect the disk in case you drop your laptop. Concerning your test: I'd simply format the drive and use it, I have a few 20 years old disk drives that still work like a charm. From the beginning these things have had a large fault tolerance and they are hard to destroy when they're not running. If you really need to be 100% sure you can: read out the SMART values. It might sound odd, but I use SpeedFan for this because it provides you with an interesting on-line in-depth analysiswrite and verify data until the disk is full (but this takes a lot of time and I wouldn't know what tool to use)listen, listen and listen. Mechanical failures are easy to spot as long as you listen carefully. 20 years WOW... the ones i've tested so far (plugged onto the PC) have been working fine other than two drives 500GB SATA 2.5" which i was hoping it would work because it probably the largest of the lot I found a couple of old 10GB and 20GB IDE drives and they do make some noise when plugged in but they run fine ... noise could be due to their age - older drives tend to be a bit louder than the recently made ones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
