Just recieved a new hard drive from Amazon and it was stupidly packaged in an oversized box in bubble wrap with another small package meaning it was probably moving around. I have given it a gentle shake and cant here any broken or dislodged platers, but obviously I want to be careful, so i will run a bench mark on it when i install it tonight but does anyone have any other recommendations to make sure it is okay?
Crystal Disk Info/Mark
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Do a complete format of the whole HDD (not a quick format), install HD Tune Pro and do the error scan, and then test the drive speeds. If it's 100MB/s or above for a HDD, you should be good.
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If he got a NAS drive or a lower end drive, or has a 3gigabit sata port, etc, he may not be able to actually do that. I wouldn't look based off speeds without looking at which model he got.
I would check the speeds against comperable speeds for the drive you got(a quick google search should suffice), and if you got a WD or Seagate drive they have tools you can use to test the drives that are fairly decent. Can you tell us which drive you ordered so we can be more specific?
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its a WD black 4tb
Sata 2=300MB/s. Closer to 250MB/s.
The tools that WD and Seagate provide are udder shit and are normally completely useless. Most of the time, they don't predict when a drive is dying, or even when anything is wrong with it.