Do you always burn-in your hard drives?

[nightshade00013]

Yep, even drives for desktops as well as drives that I have but are of unknown quality.

I picked up a 1TiB drive the other day and ran badblocks on it even though I have not put it into use yet since I have not had the time to pull my desktop down and swap out a pair of 250GiB drives.

I also had a drive that was from an older computer that I sent to my father for something he had sitting around. Ran badblocks on it before sending since I figured there was no reason to send a junk drive even if it was for an old computer.

After badblocks I run smart tests on the drives. I figure if it's good enough for a server it should be good for a desktop as well. I hate having to redo work so may as well find out if it's a junk drive to begin with after a four pass stress test.

 

[Stux]

Running badblocks may take nearly a week but it's much simpler than thermal/stress testing.

Yes, about a month to burn-in and commission a new system is about right. Minimum of 2 weeks.