tucansam Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Not even sure if its possible to preclear a USB drive, although I don't see why not. Aside from heat, are there any issues? I figure its probably best practice to test a drive a bit before violating the warranty. What's the standard procedure here? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, tucansam said: Not even sure if its possible to preclear a USB drive, although I don't see why not. Aside from heat, are there any issues? I figure its probably best practice to test a drive a bit before violating the warranty. What's the standard procedure here? Thanks. It is possible to preclear USB drives without issue. Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 I preclear before shucking. I preclear again after shucking. Quote Link to comment
tucansam Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 I'm preclearing at 38MB/s on USB2.0, 33% pre-read done in 19 hours 26 minutes..... I'll let you guys know next month how it went. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 2 hours ago, tucansam said: I'll let you guys know next month how it went. Nobody said it was fast, just that it worked. Be sure to keep the drive well ventilated. Personally I shuck and preclear, but then again, I generally can shuck without damaging the enclosure or leaving any signs of entry. Use soft pry tools, not metal. Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 12 hours ago, tucansam said: I'm preclearing at 38MB/s on USB2.0 Don´t you have a possibility to use USB 3.0? I´m sure this will triple the speed. Quote Link to comment
GyroDragona Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 2:33 PM, CHBMB said: It is possible to preclear USB drives without issue. I have been trying to find out how to do exactly this. How do you do it? I am trying to test some drives before I shuck them to make sure they are not going to fail right away. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) I do it the same way you PreClear internal drives. I plug the usb3 drive into usb3 port then run the PreClear process on it. Nothing magical or difficult at all. What are you having trouble with, do you not have usb3 ports, do you not have usb3 cable, do you not know how to run preclear? Only real suggestion is to have a fan running over the external enclosure to keep it cool. Edited November 27, 2019 by BRiT Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 4 hours ago, GyroDragona said: I have been trying to find out how to do exactly this. How do you do it? I am trying to test some drives before I shuck them to make sure they are not going to fail right away. Click that. Quote Link to comment
archedraft Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Click that. Haven’t posted anything in awhile so I’ll leave this here... Quote Link to comment
GyroDragona Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 (edited) On 11/27/2019 at 10:03 AM, CHBMB said: Click that. I was able to figure it out. Finding the location in the GUI was not the problem I was having. I have 3 drives to do and only one was showing up at any one time for some reason. I popped in a USB 3.0 card and have two plugged into it and one into the USB 3.0 built into the motherboard and all of them show fine at the same time now. I'm well into my drive tests. The drive that is only doing one clear instead of two already went through and completed a clear while waiting for the USB 3.0 card. Edited November 30, 2019 by GyroDragona Quote Link to comment
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