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Old 18-04-14, 06:50 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Jason04r View Post
There not cheap , we sent a customers hdd and they charged £899 ... It was a government owned hdd so they didn't care.

Smart protection works very poorly .I change hdd's daily and smart didn't detected a problem on say 90% of the drives yet failed on short dst test.
Oh yes I know SMART monitoring isn't the complete solution and doesn't pick up all faults, but it's still worth it if it's free software.

What hard drive testing tools do you recommend?

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