Quote Originally Posted by JohnWick View Post
its useless now i think
There's a magnet inside. Platters make good mirrors. If it's a 2.5" disk and you're skilled at soldering, the chips storing the firmware and buffer are the same ones many routers use as ROM and RAM. You can take the rest to a recycling plant...

now i check for hdd test, crystal disk, har disk sentinel, 2nd one is my favorite.
I replaced HDDScan for CDI around a decade ago, and CDI for smartmontools very recently, but they're all good. HDAT2 is still king for non-SMART tests, if it had an ATA terminal it would be a true all-in-one solution.