Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives?

An anonymous reader writes "Any Slashdot thread about drive failure is loaded with good advice about EOL — but what about the beginning? Do you normally test your new purchases as thoroughly as you test old, suspect drives? Has your testing followed the proverbial 'bathtub' curve of a lot of early failures, but with those that survive the first month surviving for years? And have you had any return problems with new failed drives, because you re-partitioned it, or 'ran Linux,' or used stress-test apps?"

Re:Yes. I mean no.

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess,,, if it sank to the bottom it was a good drive, but if it floated it was a bad drive and needed to be burnt at the stake.

Re:smartmontools

[Deekin_Scalesinger]

This should be modded up for your username alone lol

Re:SSDs

[drsmithy]

Holy crap. Twenty 3T spindles in a single array ? What do you do to de-stress ? Run between cars on a highway ?