摘要 |
A functional test for determining whether a hard disk drive has experienced an early-life failure. The test retrieves values of a selected set of stored historical performance parameters of the hard disk drive, then compares the retrieved values against a set of associated performance thresholds. If any of the selected set of stored historical performance parameters exceeds the associated performance threshold, the hard disk drive is marked as defective. The test also performs a set of non-destructive read/write tests to selected regions of the hard disk drive, generating a set of results. The non-destructive read/write test results are then compared against an associated performance threshold. If the results of the non-destructive read/write tests exceed the associated performance threshold, the hard disk drive is marked as defective. If neither the hard disk drive's historical performance parameters nor the results from the read/write tests exceed the associated performance thresholds, the hard disk drive is marked as functional.
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