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Refurbished hard drives
Hi guys. I received a replacement drive from Maxtor today for my broken
80GB drive. It quite clearly states that the drive is a refurbished one. Does anyone have any experience with repaired Maxtor hard drives? Should I do a drive stress test on it (do they even exist)? Thanks. |
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On 28 Oct 2005 07:20:23 -0700, "Random Person"
wrote: Hi guys. I received a replacement drive from Maxtor today for my broken 80GB drive. It quite clearly states that the drive is a refurbished one. Does anyone have any experience with repaired Maxtor hard drives? Should I do a drive stress test on it (do they even exist)? Thanks. You should at least run the Maxtor diagnostics and a maxtor or 3rd party write, read verify test. You might also do a surface scan and put the drive into a non-essential use for awhile, BUT if you make regular backups of that drive as prudent, that is not so important. |
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Thanks for your advice, Kony :-)
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BTW, can you recommend a good free 3rd party HD read/write/verify tool?
The ones I've seen come from the HD manufacturers themselves. |
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I've read that refurbished HDs are OK but recertified ones may not be
because they're simply used drives that have been tested. OTOH refurbed HDs are supposedly mechanically brand new. |
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On 28 Oct 2005 15:06:52 -0700, "Random Person"
wrote: BTW, can you recommend a good free 3rd party HD read/write/verify tool? The ones I've seen come from the HD manufacturers themselves. Well if you already have what came with the drive, go ahead and use it. Seems like Norton Systemworks or McAfee something-or-other also had a tool. Try the drive manufacturer's utility first, it might call this option a low level format, as sometimes that option does this (but others it may just write zeros to the drive). The manufacturer's utility is also the better option because it can be ran right after using the other diagnostics on same utility CD or floppy. |
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