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How to test a hard drive for bad sectors ?

I have a HDD
It's brand has four letters, I'm not beside it now

Something like HGST

On erasing it my hardware cloning tool tells me it has 300 has sectors

Hard drive tune - gives me all greens

How can I test this puppy properly and prob return for RMA as its brand new
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HGST is a Hitachi drive but I see recently Western Digital now has this brand. So either Hitachi or WD test programs should do fine for you (agree with the above on this).

I always use the manufacturer's drive test tool.

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