With SSDs, as long as the connector didn't get damaged in shipping, you should be good! The pallet I've mentioned in two posts already had some SSDs in it. I haven't tested them all out yet, but so far, NONE of them have failed. SSDs are super reliable.
For software, this is what I use: https://partedmagic.com - it used to be free software ages ago, but now it's about $10. It's well worth it IMO- it's a full Linux OS that can do pretty much whatever you need. The only thing I don't like about it is how it handles bad drives. I've never had a wiper eat drives from a lock-up, but I don't like the lock-ups that I've had on this last pallet. I know it's because I'm feeding the machines problem drives, but I still want something that just plain works no matter what.
Hard Drive Sentinel looks a lot like CrystalDiskInfo , but I've never used it in all fairness. Parted Magic can run health checks too, so I do it that way to make for "One-Stop drive wiping". Until this last lot, I really loved it. I still think it's a good software choice, and honestly, I don't think you'll have too many problems with failures that really gum up the works. When I test HDDs that came in from my E-Waste collection bins, I rarely have anything like that go wrong. Something happened to this pallet in shipping. Funny enough, I picked it up in Billings, and got a call the next day from Reddaway saying that they had a box that they thought came off the pallet. Sure enough, it did.
My gut says that I'm dealing with a mess that you won't have to. Other than this, Parted Magic hasn't missed a beat in almost 6 years of my use with it
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