[plug] HDD plea

[Brad Campbell]

Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have IDE hard disks 500Mb and above, that they know are operating
> > reliably that can be donated ?
> 
> I've got a box of 10-15 drives around this capacity that I can
> definitely spare. Most should run ok but its been so long since many
> were used that there might be some duds in there unbeknownst to me.

Had a thought. You could test the drives quite well by formatting them
FAT32 and running spinrite on them for a thorough test.
It works very well for me in detecting drives that may be flaky.
Not a fast process, but then you could just run the drive and change it
when you next pass the pc and it's finished.
YMMV

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