Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?
well it passed with dft - so i suppose it's good.
hard to trust something like dft though - it does not actually tell you what it's doing - it just has a progress bar.
Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?
^ It's from a PS3, so it's SATA.
I concur with your suggestion, though - Hitachi does indeed have diag software for their HDDs. I think it was called "Hitachi Drive Fitness Test" or something similar.
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yep, here it is: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5...ness-test.html
Not sure if that's the same DFT some of you talked about in the posts earlier above. But if not, see what this software says/does.
And indeed, just check the SMART data to get a better idea of what's going on.
Or even better yet, run a full (not quick) surface scan test with HDTune. I find that never fails to find bad sectors that are truly irrecoverable. It also gives you a map of where the bad sectors should be. I've used that info before to partition out big clusters of bad sectors on several HDDs and only create useful partitions with the good sectors. Worked with 100% success each time.
Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?
You mean bin the drive for PS3 use? Because I've reused a number of "bad" PS3 HDDs before in PCs. No problems there. One was a 40 GB Seagate that had over 1000 bad sectors, IIRC. I let the poor thing remap, then formatted and installed into a PC. Sounds like a madman thing to do... but the PC's motherboard actually croaked before the HDD. So it worked for my purpose. And it still works! IIRC, only the current pending sector count increased, but the bad sector count hasn't.
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