Hey,
I am reusing a bunch of older IDE disks along with my new SATAs in the new server I am building, but since some of those disks are a bit old I want to run a thorough scan on each to do my best to reveal any signs of problems before I even try to integrate them into the system. Im not looking for a tool to fix data on the disk, but to test the physical condition on the disk and perhaps write some data and read it back to see that data corruption isnt happening (or something of this nature - im not an expert on what most of these tools actually do in detail).
I know that the saying goes "the best tool is the manufacturers tool", and I might just do that later anyway, but I have a mix of so many different brands that it would be nice to do atleast a preliminary scan using the same tool - esspecially if the tool is capable of scanning several disks at the same time (since I have about 10 I need to work with).
Lastly, it would be really nice to have USB-disk support since 8 of the 10 disks are on USB at the moment. I dont know if there is any special reason why USB cant support certains types of scans or if its just something many devs. choose to not use their time on. If i really have to then I will reconnect them natively via IDE if you guys think that is really needed. I'd also like some feedback on DOS-scanning. it seemed for the longest time that all the good HDD scan programs only ran in DOS or recommended running in DOS. How about today? Can windows tools do just as good a job now, or do I really need to go back to oldschool tools like spinrite to get the job done well?
-Stigma
I am reusing a bunch of older IDE disks along with my new SATAs in the new server I am building, but since some of those disks are a bit old I want to run a thorough scan on each to do my best to reveal any signs of problems before I even try to integrate them into the system. Im not looking for a tool to fix data on the disk, but to test the physical condition on the disk and perhaps write some data and read it back to see that data corruption isnt happening (or something of this nature - im not an expert on what most of these tools actually do in detail).
I know that the saying goes "the best tool is the manufacturers tool", and I might just do that later anyway, but I have a mix of so many different brands that it would be nice to do atleast a preliminary scan using the same tool - esspecially if the tool is capable of scanning several disks at the same time (since I have about 10 I need to work with).
Lastly, it would be really nice to have USB-disk support since 8 of the 10 disks are on USB at the moment. I dont know if there is any special reason why USB cant support certains types of scans or if its just something many devs. choose to not use their time on. If i really have to then I will reconnect them natively via IDE if you guys think that is really needed. I'd also like some feedback on DOS-scanning. it seemed for the longest time that all the good HDD scan programs only ran in DOS or recommended running in DOS. How about today? Can windows tools do just as good a job now, or do I really need to go back to oldschool tools like spinrite to get the job done well?
-Stigma