best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

[stj]

like the title says.
got a hitachi 2.5" drive out of a playstation3 that was acting weird - want to full surface-scan this drive.

[diif]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

There's WinDFT for Windows or use the tools on the Hiren or Ultimate boot CD.

[Topcat]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

...or use the tools on the Hiren or Ultimate boot CD.

I second this. Hiren's has helped be diag many flaky drives.

[stj]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

well it passed with dft - so i suppose it's good.
hard to trust something like dft though - it does not actually tell you what it's doing - it just has a progress bar.

[Per Hansson]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

Looking at the SMART attribute data is always a good idea.
I like the software "HDAT2" for that.

[stj]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

i looked at hdat2 but it was dos only so probably wouldnt detect a usb caddy

[Per Hansson]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

It does support some USB bridges, just not all of them:

https://www.hdat2.com/hdat2_faq.html#q16

Here is en example of an unsupported controller, but I can get it to work in Linux:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=55638

[brethin]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

You don't say if t's para or Sara, but Hitachi has diags for their drives.

[momaka]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

^ It's from a PS3, so it's SATA.

I concur with your suggestion, though - Hitachi does indeed have diag software for their HDDs. I think it was called "Hitachi Drive Fitness Test" or something similar.
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yep, here it is:
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5...ness-test.html
Not sure if that's the same DFT some of you talked about in the posts earlier above. But if not, see what this software says/does.

And indeed, just check the SMART data to get a better idea of what's going on.
Or even better yet, run a full (not quick) surface scan test with HDTune. I find that never fails to find bad sectors that are truly irrecoverable. It also gives you a map of where the bad sectors should be. I've used that info before to partition out big clusters of bad sectors on several HDDs and only create useful partitions with the good sectors. Worked with 100% success each time.

[stj]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

if you find bad sectors on a ps3 you bin the drive, it's a custom format and you cant remap stuff.

[momaka]

Re: best software to test a HITACHI 2.5" hard drive?

You mean bin the drive for PS3 use? Because I've reused a number of "bad" PS3 HDDs before in PCs. No problems there. One was a 40 GB Seagate that had over 1000 bad sectors, IIRC. I let the poor thing remap, then formatted and installed into a PC. Sounds like a madman thing to do... but the PC's motherboard actually croaked before the HDD. So it worked for my purpose. And it still works! IIRC, only the current pending sector count increased, but the bad sector count hasn't.