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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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What program do you use to check for bad sectors? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just bought 5 used 8TB Ultrastar drives on ebay for only $35 each. Heck of a deal right? Checked smart info and everything looks good. Of course i know it would be a good idea to do a complete scan for bad sectors but I don’t know the best program for that. Ideally a free win10 program that i could test all 5 at once connected to one pc

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The manufactures software. In your case

https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads

WD Drive Utilities

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It is expected that some sectors fail over time. The HD is provision with extra space to account for this. The SMART threshold is what you should look at.