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Best Hard Drive Testing Software


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As the title says, what is the best software for testing all hard drives, and telling me if there is any kind of problem.

 

I have a home server, and want to not lose data again, so I want to know as soon as possible if something is going on, so I can replace the drive.

 

Your suggestions on what you use, or like?

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so when you bought the drive pool, why not just buy their scanner at the same time? You just sent me a PM that you were using the stablebit software for pools, they make the scanner as well. That will email you if any issues found, and can be used with the pool software to move files off the drive into other disks on your pool if there are issues.

https://stablebit.com/Scanner

If you would of bought it with the drive pool you would of gotten a deal, so both of them for $35 -- contact them they are very helpful maybe they will let you get the combo price still?

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I did actually.

First, it never seems like it was doing anything, I would check it once in awhile, no messages, seems fine, settings are correct. No real way to know if its actually doing scans. So I suppose its a good thing, but I'd like to know that its actually working, I coudln't find anywhere that said Last Scan, so I don't really like that.  I actually just recently tried to open it and its stuck on initializing, which is a problem> May just need a reboot, but seems odd.

 

So then I thought I'd find out if any other are recommended. 

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Well clearly you got something wrong then.. Since it clearly shows you when it last scan, etc. etc.

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You can have it scan as frequent or less frequent as you want

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this is the sort of software you would want all in green, and not telling you anything.

Setup your notifications, validate that it scans when you have set it to scan and that you have it set to autostart, etc.

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No you don't have to leave the interface open if that is what you mean.

There is a service that yes would have to be running ;)

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They don't use much of anything.. See mine running.

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