


This makes them perfect for retro gaming PCs.

The process is aborted by itself all the time. I use SeaTools for DOS to put a 32 GB capacity limit on modern drives. of 2 - SeaTools - The Process Is Aborted - posted in External Hardware: When I try to apply long test to an external hdd. I have tested it with various Seagate and Samsung drives, quite recent ones as well with 2TB capacity. The information and testing routines in SeaTools 5 (Linux) goes beyond those available in Linux Mint's Disks. The DOS version of SeaTools should support Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung drives. Using Cinnamon's menu editor, I placed a link to run_SeaTools.sh in the Administration folder for convenient access. Use this Linux version of the SeaTools GUI to diagnose hard drives and monitor SSDs.īy default, it installs into /opt and works under both Linux Mint 20.3 and 21 Cinnamon. Though it’s a tool from Seagate Labs, it works. I then did some further research on this HDD which also led me to Seagate's Web site where I was pleased to discover a version of SeaTools for Linux on offer: A Full Review of Seagate SeaTools, a Free Hard Drive Testing Tool. SeaTools, from Seagate is a freeware to that helps the user to test and analyze his hard disk on a hardware level to find errors and bad sectors.
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Due to a catastrophic controller chip failure on a KINGSTON SUV500960G SSD which invoked and scrambled the drive's built-in encryption feature (which I never used), thus rendering the SSD permanently unreadable even by gparted, I was forced to install a 2TB Seagate-Samsung Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD HDD in the notebook in my signature:
