Getting that new hardware itch...

Tue Dec 27 17:53:29 PST 2005

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> I have three WD 80 GB Jumbo's in operation as well as a Seagate 80 GB.
> Spinrite 6.0 reported no bad sectors on any of the WD drives but the
> some bad sectors on the Seagate.  I always run Spinrite on a new drive
> before installing an OS to check it out and to let it reach operating
> temperature first.

What does spinrite do that smartd can't (other than run in Windows)?

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