nospoon Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I've been a while since I bought a new hard drive, and I come from the old school days where one would rigorously run burn-in tests on a system for at least 24 hours before giving it the thumbs up. However, with new technolgies and changing times, is it still necessary to run burn-in tests on new hard drives? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazmire11 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 well no its not REQUIREDbut it sure has a nice knowledge right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZcWorld Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i being told always do a burn in testto make sure the pc /hardware / hard drivers are going to work well without s***ting them self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 One surface scan is probably all that's required. Leave it on continuously (idling, not reading/writing) for at least 24 hours.Do any more than that, and you'll be shortening the life of the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 its really not needed. if you want to do it to make sure then go ahead and do it, but you really dont need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 In the hour or more that it takes to load Windows on a new drive, that's all you need to know the drive is working OK.If you then want to do a Chkdsk and Defrag, that would be more than enough.Anything more than that would be wasting your time and shortening the drives life by just that much.Andromeda43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now