Hi, Most of the time, HD health is not really “testable”. When something fails, it just does. If a block or sector becomes damaged in some manner, there’s not really a method by which you can say that it is getting close to becoming damaged. There are some signs you can note that tell you that the drive is either terribly fragmented, or maybe that there is problems somewhere on the disk. These indicators are things like access speed is getting rather slow, or access to one or more files gives you errors. the best, or most reliable way, to fix these errors is, in my opinion, to copy the files over to another drive. As the files move over to the second drive, they are all brought back together and placed on the new drive in an efficient and methodical manner. Once the copy is complete, you can format the first drive. The reformat will clean things up nicely and will also tell you if the it has any errors. There are more secure, or detailed, methods by which you can perform this wipe which would give you more information. A regular erase does not actually erase the entire HD, but you can “zero” everything which would send the print head over the entire drive, thus giving a good indication of whether or not errors are detected. Yes, there may be other tools out there, but I don’t believe that any are really necessary for the vast majority of situations.
Just my opinion, of course. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On May 8, 2020, at 9:49 AM, Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر > <ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I need to know if there is a better way to know my HD Health from time to > time? > AM using the 1st aid, is it good? or i need a strong app more than that to > tell us the health of the HD before anything can happen? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/376D0D5B-423F-4D5A-8CCF-F6C9DFED1E9A%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/B2C77386-5631-426C-8E20-54A78AD4A7D4%40me.com.
