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MPlakhuta
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Registered: ‎11-08-2009
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Soft for bad blocks/clusters diagnostics

Hi!

Which soft I can use for testing my FreeAgent XTreme external drive for a bad blocks/clusters?

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fzabkar
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Registered: ‎01-27-2009
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Re: Soft for bad blocks/clusters diagnostics

Here are a few SMART diagnostic and benchmarking tools.

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows/Linux):

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HD Tune:

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

HDDScan (Windows):

http://hddscan.com/

CrystalDiskMark:

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

smartmontools (Linux/Windows):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Download

See this article for SMART info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools

List of SMART tools:

http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/dload.php