What program do you use to check for bad sectors?
What program do you use to check for bad sectors?
Just bought 5 used 8TB Ultrastar drives on ebay for only $35 each. Heck of a deal right? Checked smart info and everything looks good. Of course i know it would be a good idea to do a complete scan for bad sectors but I don’t know the best program for that. Ideally a free win10 program that i could test all 5 at once connected to one pc
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The manufactures software. In your case
https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads
WD Drive Utilities
Western Digital Dashboard
It is expected that some sectors fail over time. The HD is provision with extra space to account for this. The SMART threshold is what you should look at.
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