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I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

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[–] 2 pts

Most reliable way is to write random data to the entire disk, then verify all of it. The disk can't fake storing it, as it could if you zeroed it.

[–] 3 pts

I usually just dd something on to it, and see where it stops. I've never had one of the recirculating firmware drives that just keeps taking data but doesn't store it - but then again I don't buy 1TB flash drives from wish.com for 9.95$