[unRAID] Do you guys preclear your drives?

What's the general concensus on preclearing a drive? Unbelievable that it takes SOO long. And it seems to put a lot of stress on a drive (which I guess is debatably good, especially if it's new).

For those of you that preclear, do you skip the pre-read and post-read stages to speed things up?

I run it 2 - 3 times for new drives. It's unlikely, but there is still possibility that the new drive is a defect.. I would rather spend 24 - 32 hr pre clearing to find if it's bad or not than to find out my new hdd is bad later when I have some stuff in there.

It's also a good tool to find out if old hdd's are good enough in my opinion. i have 7 hdd's for my unraid i believe. Except for 1, i think they're at least 1 year or 2 old. I wanted to make sure those drive was good and pre_clear does the job in my opiinon.

I agree,..
It may be a pain,..but if the dog barks, give it a bone. (sorry,..I'm just tired and need sleep)

Well, I guess I figured most people here probably do it. I just didn't want to spend a week preclearing only to find out that only a few here actually do it.

I do it for one time.... it's all good. Be safer then sorry....

Eventually the preclear will be a standard part of Unraid. My understanding is that preclear does what Unraid does when you add a drive except that while preclearing you can use the array. Then when you actually add the drive to the array it completes in a few minutes instead of hours.