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Seatools failing everything connected to USB docking station
The first 2 drives I tested from my readynas(with boot issues) resulted in saying that both drives had failed the short test. I thought I was in trouble then I tested it with an older version of the s...
mdgm wrote: You should connect disks to an internal SATA port in your PC for testing with SeaTools. Connecting disks via USB is not reliable.
I have found no problem using Crystal disk info which kind of reads the S.M.A.R.T report and looks for problems.
An alternative to SeaTools is Hitachi Fitness test software. I can run the short and long drive test. I have found that works with my docking stations.
I am very upset that SeaTools new software is worse than their older one. The old one use to work perfectly fine. Seagate does not even seem to care.
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