How To Check Brand New Hard Disk

[mwvirk]

Hello friends,

I got some doubt and need your help to find out some solution:

I want to buy an additional HD for my desktop C2Q.

My friend is giving me 1500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 32MB cache HD on just half of the actual (market) price.

He said he brought it and somehow his PC was not supporting this HD and he need money and wants to sale it.

I’m little bit confused and not sure. Sometime thinking that there might be some problem and he just wants to get rid of this.

I want to know how I can check if this HD is new and was not used at all.
Or if he used it then how I can check that HD is 100% ok and reliable and it will not give me any problem.

At last I will say that my friend is giving me as a brand new HD but for some reason I cannot take any risk and want to be sure before I take it and use it.

NOW:

>>> i only want to know if this hard disk is 100% free of all fault/errors.

>>> i was reading in another forum that seagate 1.5tb & 2tb drive are having some problems and its freezing - seagate later release some firmware updates to fix this problem.

Need your help. Thanks.

 

[RJC]

You can download Seagate sea tools which checks the hd and run something like hd tune or hd tach to check performance.

 

[SpiderX]

yea get seatools and do the hdd tests, also check http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 enter in the serial number to check if it needs a firmware update.

 

[Fahim]

You can also use WD dlg diagnostics, pretty good software and it works with all types of hard drive. It is a really light and small utility compared to seatools.

And don't forget to check the serial number with seagate website to see if it has warranty, just in case if you need to RMA in future.