I can confirm that no: the tests in Hard Disk Sentinel are the fastest possible solution for testing, even with simple IDE/SATA drives and also USB drives, SCSI/SAS drives, pendrives, memory cards and so (even with non-standard sector sizes like special SAS drives formatted with 520 / 528 bytes/sector).Īs described in the text description of the test (the Reinitialize Disk Surface Test) it performs 3 x overwrite with special initialization patterns (3 is the default but this can be adjusted) and then erase (fill with zeroes) and then read back the data to verify that it's actually written and not damaged / altered / corrupted.
