Checking Hard Drives Before Use

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Hi Everyone, I've just bought 3 x Western Digital 1tb External Hard Drives to back up all my movies and music from my main PC's

I've formatted them all fine to NTFS, but I read in some magazine a few months ago there is software out there that can test and read/write to your drives prior to putting important data on there.

Does anyone know the best and most popular software to do this?

Cheers
 
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If your wanting to check the drives for errors do a HDtune error check on them.
HDTune will also allow you to test the speeds of the drives on the benchmark tab.

Also, just realised you went with externals, I don't know how much use HDTune/Tach will be to you :/ If you're lookin to transfer a lot of files, I've found even the branded ones I've tried terribly slow :(
 
You can try WD Diagnostics, the software have an option for an extended test which is pretty good. I always test all new drives before I put anything on it.
 
Fahim said:
You can try WD Diagnostics, the software have an option for an extended test which is pretty good. I always test all new drives before I put anything on it.
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Is there anything like this for a Samsung F2? I was going to try HUtil but it only seems to support the F1 drives. :(
 
CaptainCrash said:
ES-Tool works OK with the F2 I bought recently - I wouldn't use HUtil even for the F1, as it's not entirely compatible in spite of what it says on the website (unless it's been updated since last time I checked).
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Cheers, I'll gove ES-tool a whirl.

Saying that, HDtune seems to be checking the drive ok, it's taken 3 hours so far, does ES-tool do any checks HDtune doesn't?
 
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