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System Name | Senile |
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Processor | I7-4790K@4.8 GHz 24/7 |
Motherboard | MSI Z97-G45 Gaming |
Cooling | Be Quiet Pure Rock Air |
Memory | 16GB 4x4 G.Skill CAS9 2133 Sniper |
Video Card(s) | GIGABYTE Vega 64 |
Storage | Samsung EVO 500GB / 8 Different WDs / QNAP TS-253 8GB NAS with 2x10Tb WD Blue |
Display(s) | 34" LG 34CB88-P 21:9 Curved UltraWide QHD (3440*1440) *FREE_SYNC* |
Case | Rosewill |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard + HD HDMI |
Power Supply | Corsair HX750 |
Mouse | Logitech G5 |
Keyboard | Corsair Strafe RGB & G610 Orion Red |
Software | Win 10 |
So I'm helping someone who's RAID 1 failed on a Dell E510. There's two 160GB Seagate SATA barracudas - the dell won't boot and this machine has a hitsory of RAID problems (like needing to be rebuilt weekly).
I plugged both of the drives into my machine one by one, and was able to save potentially lost data (yea!). I found a few corrupt folders on one drive. The other drive seemed intact and had a whole directory of MP3's that could not be found on the first one.
So... I want to check the drives first for bad sectors and errors.
Question is what utility would be the best to stress the drives and check for bad sectors, faults, etc. (yes, I'm aware of chkdsk
). It's been a while!
Any suggestions?
I plugged both of the drives into my machine one by one, and was able to save potentially lost data (yea!). I found a few corrupt folders on one drive. The other drive seemed intact and had a whole directory of MP3's that could not be found on the first one.
So... I want to check the drives first for bad sectors and errors.
Question is what utility would be the best to stress the drives and check for bad sectors, faults, etc. (yes, I'm aware of chkdsk

Any suggestions?