How to test an external (USB) hard drive?
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I recently bought a new 1TB USB mounted external hard drive (a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0, to be exact). Before putting it into use, I would like to perform some rudimentary testing on it. Is this possible? Can anyone suggest a free software to do this? (I can use either Windows …
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If you are talking about testing the performance of the drive, you can use HD Tach for running some low-level tests. On the other hand, if you are looking for something to test the integrity of your drive, check out SeaTools from Seagate. You do not…
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