Utility to burn in new hard drive?

[Joe S]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

 

[Rod Speed]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a
new hard drive before I start to use it?

No point in doing that.

You can use something like HDTach if you want,
or use smartctl to run the smart test mode forever.

 

[kony]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

Run the HDD manufacturers diagnostics, including the full
read/write surface scan. Same for scandisk, surface
testing.

Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I
never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.

As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really, at
most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics if
they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

 

[Andrew Gabriel]

As for one-system-one-drive type of burn in, not really, at
most you can again run the manufacturers diagnostics if
they'll run, and try installing windows/other-OS.

If the drive has a jumper labelled SS (Self Seek), this
will give it a jolly good work through with just the power
connected. Unfortunately, this has become quite rare on
disks nowadays, whereas it was once quite standard.

 

[Rod Speed]

If the drive has a jumper labelled SS (Self Seek), this
will give it a jolly good work through with just the power
connected. Unfortunately, this has become quite rare on
disks nowadays, whereas it was once quite standard.

Virtually all can do that now using smart, invoked with something like smartctl.

 

[Alan Kakareka]

I would use CX command (random seeks untill stoped) from MHDD

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[Sjouke Burry]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

Scandisk with multiple surface scan??
(after you format it)

 

[DaveW]

You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.

 

[Don Freeman]

You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.

The theory being that burning it in will reveal faults (that won't show up
until used a bit) in areas that can then be locked away from use. Or, if a
significant number, trigger the return of the drive to the vendor.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

Not really. Infant mortality for HDDs is pretty low these days, so
burn-in does not help much. Same is generally true for semiconductors.
It used to be different.

Hiwever if you really want to burn in, then just put the drive
under higher load for some time. I used to do this by compiling
Linux kernels in a loop.

Arno

 

[Matt]

You do NOT have to burn in a harddrive.

True if you don't care whether the drive works.

 

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True if you don't care whether the drive works.

Just crank up some memory hog application that handles files bigger
than your ram and you will thrash the hell out of the drive as it
pages the data in and out.
Sound Forge with a big audio file or some video editor springs to
mind.

 

[Ryze Edup]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

maybe try an anal burner ?

 

[Osiris]

Fill it with data, then copy it off again. Personally I

never trust a new drive for at least a few weeks, only
mirrored data goes onto it.

I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

 

[Osiris]

Are there any utilities which can burn-in a new hard drive before I
start to use it?

Defining "burn in" as compressing a weeks normal operation into an ,
say, hour ?

Is it "generally accepted", that a virgin HD will only decease within
1 hour or after 5 years of operation ?

 

[Rod Speed]

Osiris wrote

I extend the mistrust to the disks entire llifespan...
It's volatile memory...
backup procedures, redundancy etc..

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

Yep, that's what SMART is about.

 

[Rod Speed]

Osiris <> writes

With devices such as disk drives, if they don't fail within
an hour or two, they'll probably run for years. Vendors
exercise drives to reduce the incidence of the former.

No they dont.

As a result, drives that survive a very brief infancy
will likely remain reliable for a very long time.

Yes, only a small percentage fail soon.

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

Are there any drives that one could submit to diagnostics ALL the
time, that transmit "condition data" to the mobo/OS constantly ?

All of them. Google SMART.

 

[kony]

With devices such as disk drives, if they don't fail within an hour or
two, they'll probably run for years. Vendors exercise drives to
reduce the incidence of the former. As a result, drives that survive
a very brief infancy will likely remain reliable for a very long time.

While that seems right initially, seldom do I hear of a
drive arriving DOA or dying immediately (within an hour),
usually it's within the first 9 months to a year if the
failure is premature.

 

[Jaxx]

Vendors have already done that. Prompt failures after their
testing are rare.

I thought one of the differences between a Maxtor DiamondMax and a
MaXLine was that the MaXLine had been soak tested for longer?

In that case, testing a new drive mightbe worthwhile?