On 04/04/12 09:33, Scott Matthews wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to purchase a new SATA drive for use in a USB2 enclosure.
I'm leaning toward a 2TB Hitachi 5k3000 (but I welcome any other suggestions).
My question is: once it's in the USB2 enclosure, what should I do
before I start using it?
Just run it as-is? Quick Format? Full Format? Should I run some sort
of diagnostic?
Thanks kindly! -Scott
You should definitely do stuff with it before trusting it. I do a
format of a disk, and then lots of file i/o to it, or use it to
compile stuff for at least a day.
Since most people don't compile stuff, I'd suggest doing lots
of files at once, and have several instances of that going at
once, You want to hear the disk making noise for quite some
time. If I'm feeling paranoid I'll do this for three days straight.
I really think that the failure rates on disks today are higher
than they were 5 years ago. Cheaper, bigger, faster, but I
don't think the quality is as good.
I have several ancient white Optiplex's with original disks, a
few *10* years old which are still humming along. I'm seeing
failures of 320G+ sized disk drives after three years, to the
extent that at least for laptops, I treat disks like airplane parts
and change them out before they die.
--STeve Andre'
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