![]() Time permitting, I would buy a used drive on eBay, marked as failing or for parts, and test it in various ways. Unfortunately, it was not as easy to find sources that had actually tested these programs on real-world hard drive problems. A search led, for example, to 1 2 3 4 sites recommending CHKDSK, SCANDISK, Seagate SeaTools, PassMark DiskCheckup, Western Digital’s Data Lifeguard Diagnostics, HDDScan, HDDLife Pro, Hard Disk Sentinel, GSmartControl, Windows Drive Fitness Test, Samsung HUTIL, Bart’s Stuff Test, Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool, Free EASIS Drive Check, Macrorit Disk Scanner, Ariolic Disk Scanner, and/or CrystalDiskInfo. Those two programs were among many recommended by various sources. The DiskCheckup website said it was free for personal use. I knew that sometimes developers would say something like that, but then would allow free use thereafter, perhaps with an occasional nag. (See also PassMark’s BurnInTest.) The developer’s website said that HD Tune Pro was free for the first 15 days, and would then cost $34.95. Here is what the buyer sent me (click to enlarge):Īs that image indicates, the buyer of that Samsung HDD used two programs, HD Tune Pro and PassMark’s DiskCheckup. I, myself, had once sold a drive that I had not only secure-erased, but had also tested with one or more programs and yet the buyer found problems with it. Lifehacker said that wiping the drive could be, in itself, a way of testing the drive. Gizmodo suggested using a zero-fill utility as an alternative way of wiping HDDs. (Note, again, that SSDs required an entirely different procedure.) The only task at issue here was that of checking for flaws on the drive. Note also the advisability of having a backup of any data to be preserved, before starting to screw around with diagnostic tools that might wipe out everything.įor this particular drive, I had already wiped the data using DBAN. Note that this was completely different from the question of how to check a solid state drive (SSD). So I decided to look into the recommended ways of checking an HDD. ![]() I wanted to check it carefully, so as not to burden the buyer with a dud, and not to have to reimburse and pay return shipping if s/he knew more about drive testing than I did. I had a hard disk drive (HDD) I wanted to sell.
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