Check if "new" hard drive is actually new and unused.

[GibbyNLA]

Hey all, I am buying "new" drives, but have read where folks would discover their "new" drives had been used before by looking up the read/write cycles or hours used. What app/utillity can we use on our macs to check if a drive has already been used. I googled the heck out of this inquiry and the search results always address a different question; it's f*ckin annoying.
thanks, G

 

[chabig]

Trying to check a new drive for read/write cycles or hours seems like utter paranoia to me. Just format it and put it to use.

 

[MacUser2525]

Hey all, I am buying "new" drives, but have read where folks would discover their "new" drives had been used before by looking up the read/write cycles or hours used. What app/utillity can we use on our macs to check if a drive has already been used. I googled the heck out of this inquiry and the search results always address a different question; it's f*ckin annoying.
thanks, G

You wanted something like "check smart status osx" it shuld have given you hits like this one eventually.

Download S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools

Disk Inspection and Monitoring

sourceforge.net

For a command line utility found at this link.

How do I get detailed SMART disk information on OS X (Mavericks or later)

I'm trying to get a detailed SMART status report on the drives in my Mac. I'm not talking about "Verified," I'm talking about the detailed report that's about 100 lines long listing all the vital

apple.stackexchange.com

Or too do it graphically get something like HWMonitor a hackintosh program that will do it for you graphically on a Mac. You do not need the FakeSMC only the monitoring program.

HWSensors

Download HWSensors for free. All information from hardware sensors on your Mac. HWSensors is a software bundle that includes drivers and applications that allow you to access information from hardware sensors available on your Mac. FakeSMC is an open source SMC device driver/emulator developed...

sourceforge.net

 

[KeesMacPro]

This app works fine:

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health (S.M.A.R.T.) diagnostics and monitoring utility. Save yourself the data loss and downtime that is associated with unexpected SSD and HDD failures. Don't worry about losing your important data, music, and photographs.

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