[SOLVED] What program is good for testing HDD's health?

[AlwaysReaper]

Im buying a used 1 tb HDD, the seller is willing to test it in any program and send a screenshot with the results to me. Which program is the best for a quick health status?

 

[R_1]

the makes will usually have a diagnostic program that they use to determine if the drive is good, WD has their lifeguard software, seagate has Seatools, etc.
what is the make of the drive.

my preferred drive fitness test is spinrite 6 but is is pretty pricey for a license.

 

[AlwaysReaper]

the makes will usually have a diagnostic program that they use to determine if the drive is good, WD has their lifeguard software, seagate has Seatools, etc.
what is the make of the drive.

my preferred drive fitness test is spinrite 6 but is is pretty pricey for a license.

Its a seagate barracuda

 

[R_1]

seatools.
seatools is made for seagate

SeaTools | Support Seagate US

SeaTools – Schnelldiagnose-Tool zur Überprüfung des Zustands Ihrer Festplatte

www.seagate.com

 

[mundial]

Here is a list of HDD and SSD diagnostic tools

HDD and SSD diagnostic tools

 

[mdd1963]

SeaTools looked remarkably like GsmartControl with a new wrapper...with a few links to Seagate for paid recovery options?

As new WD 1 TB Blue hard drives are all of $28 these days, I'd settle for a clean CrystalDiskInfo display, passing on any drive with any reallocations/bad sectors

 

[fzabkar]

If you must use the manufacturer's tools, use SeaChest and avoid SeaTools. SeaTools will give a passing grade to a drive with 2000 bad sectors, so it is not to be trusted in that respect.

I would recommend MHDD (DOS) or HDDScan (Windows). These tools will perform a full surface scan and identify any "slow" sectors. SeaTools will not.

 

[AlwaysReaper]

SeaTools looked remarkably like GsmartControl with a new wrapper...with a few links to Seagate for paid recovery options?

As new WD 1 TB Blue hard drives are all of $28 these days, I'd settle for a clean CrystalDiskInfo display, passing on any drive with any reallocations/bad sectors

He already showed me CrystalDiskInfo

https://imgur.com/a/wiWCbUP

View: https://m.imgur.com/a/wiWCbUP
but its hard to interpret these results

 

[Ravi Sankar]

Get the seatools bootable and do the test Long Disk Self Test

 

[mdd1963]

Most failing drives will quickly show issues in the C5 and C6 lines of data, and, often show in Caution status with a 'yellow' background....

As it is just a 1 TB used drive, pay your $15 and take your chances, I guess....

It's power on hours indicate it's been on 400+ days 24/7, or 1200 days in 8 hour increments...; definitely has some hours on it...

I'd personally honestly just spend the $28 on a new WD drive....but, the drive you are looking at shows no issues, assuming, of course, the CrystalDiskInfo output is from the drive in question..

 

[fzabkar]

The Reported Uncorrectable Errors attribute is a problem. I would avoid this drive. Moreover, it appears to be a stablemate of the problematic ST3000DM001 model which was the subject of a law suit.