Question : Would Western Digital's HDD checking software have Passed these drives or Failed them ?Įdited by JHMcG, 25 July 2013 - 06:33 AM. I sent them back to the seller and got my money back then bought five more, and tested 3 of them They didn't test any better than the three working junk ones in the first set. New Hitachi 120GB Internal Hard Disk Drives 2 this internal HDDs. Now out of the five of them, One had a starting read speed up around 145,000 - and the other working ones had starting read speeds down around 95,000 to as low as 75,000. The Travelstar 5K250 is Hitachi s highest capacity, 5400 RPM hard drive for notebook more than a 56 capacity improvement and 8 better application performance than its predecessor, this drive is the work horse of the mobile product line. ![]() One had high spikes on the whole front third of the drive, another had medium high spikes all over the drive, and the third had high spikes all over the rear third of the drive. The remaining three when tested with TESTHDD had major sector damage. The second one I tested was dead, the bios could not pick it up. I tested them with TESTHDD and one drive had minor secor damage scattered here and there but was otherwise fine. ![]() Not so long ago I bought 5 brand new Western Digital 320 Gig Caviar Blue drives for the new machine I am building.
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