Platter hard drives are fragile things and stores don’t package them properly most of the time when they ship them. So, my thinking is that it’s a good idea to test the drives once they arrive in order to make sure that they didn’t arrive defective (with bad blocks).
However, I read recently that the drives should always be spun up and the powering them on from ambient room temperature and then powering them off and letting them cool down is a huge stress for the drive and shortens its life.
Is it accurate? Does it make sense to test freshly-purchased hard drives before using them, or is it doing more harm to them than it’s worth?
And do you know a faster and more reliable way to mark bad sectors than using Easeus Partition Manager Surface Test solution from this question/answer?
