Hard Drive Burn-in Still Necessary?

[nospoon]

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

[spazmire11]

well no its not REQUIRED

but it sure has a nice knowledge right?

[ZcWorld]

i being told always do a burn in test

to make sure the pc /hardware / hard drivers are going to work well without s***ting them self

[LLXX]

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.

[ripken204]

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.

[Andromeda43]

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