hard drive burn-in

[Tom Metro]

I picked up some refurbished hard drives for a personal project and was 
curious to know what are your favorite tools and techniques for stress 
testing a new drive? Some people do this as a matter of course on all 
new drives. I've heard of SpinRite being used for this. As there isn't 
any need for exhaustive data recovery attempts on a new drive, that 
seems overkill. Probably using dd to write to every block of the raw 
device, while using SMART monitoring to notify of any bad sectors ought 
to do it.

  -Tom

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