Checking status and cleaning second hand drive

[rangor gubbins]

The IT department were throwing away an 8TB seagate iron wolf red nas drive today. So I asked if I could have it.
It's manufacturing date is 2020, so not that old.
Can someone remind me what (free) software is good for checking the drive status (e.g bad sectors etc.) and also wiping it.

 

[Murphy]

Personally I'd always try to use the tool provided by the manufacturer first so in this case seatools...

SeaTools | Support Seagate US

SeaTools - Quick diagnostic tool that checks the health of your drive.

www.seagate.com

If you don't trust the accuracy of that you could use something like...

GitHub - ashaduri/gsmartcontrol: GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool - GitHub - ashaduri/gsmartcontrol: GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

github.com

 

[rangor gubbins]

Perfect, thanks. I'll try seatools. Now you mention it I have used it before a long time ago

 

[Delta3D]

CrystalDiskInfo is usually my go-to for disk health info.

I use DBAN for wiping disks.