How best to test harddrive / ssd's

[RimBlock]

I have a number of purchases of used hard drives and SSD and would like, to find a way to healthcheck them before use.

I have an external USB dock connected to my Windows workstation, but putting the Intel and Samsung drives in to them results in the Intel / Samsung software not recognising them.

Does anyone know of a solution that can look past the USB interface at the drive behind it.

Whilst I can put them in my Unbuntu servers and run Smartctl having something that is quick and east at my workstation would be great.

Any good tools out there ?.

 

[i386]

Does anyone know of a solution that can look past the USB interface at the drive behind it.

Don't use usb adapters.
Get a hotswap bay, connect it to a sata port (or sas hba) and then run the vendor specific tools to check the health data

 

[RimBlock]

Thanks for the reply.

Can you recomment any good cheap external enclosures, ideally with 8088 conectionns as I have a LSI 9300-8e card sitting around.

The SATA ports on my board are shared with the NVME slots 2 & 3 so would rather not use those.

 

[nthu9280]

If you are testing used hard drives, running bad-blocks can take few days. Search here on the forums for @BLinux bht (bulk hard drive testing) script.