Hard Disk Monitoring

I ran the Extended Self-test on a large drive and it was going to take about 16 hours. Because of the long duration I set the test to background mode and forgot about it. By the time I remembered about the test the next day it seems to have already completed. The progress bar was gone and there were...

That answers all my questions. Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain it all.

Hi. I recently purchased an 8TB NAS drive and I want to make sure the entire surface of the disk is stable before putting data on it. After read the section of the FAQ you suggested, it seems the best option is to use the Surface Test => Read test option. Is that correct? Should I run Short Self-tes...