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What to check - Buying Second Hand HDD

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/what-to-check-buying-second-hand-hdd.175843/

patkim
patkim Original post #1
Jul 14, 2013 at 1:19 PM
Hi, I am about to buy a second hand HDD. Have aligned with the seller that I shall also do a few checks from my side before purchase. What should I be specifically looking into e.g. any key SMART parameters. Could someone advice please. Thx
harshilsharma63
Jul 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Check for 'read error rate', seek error rate, spin retry count, uncorrectlable sector count and especially relocated sector count. you can also post a screenshot of crystaldisk info.