I usually just yolo and throw them into the pool but my last drive I just did a long SMART test and it came up clean so into the pool it went.
One can also do a badblocks run if you don’t mind waiting the extra time to do so and can understand the logs.
only mods I play with are steam workshop stuff and I only have one game that uses it, Space Engineers. I wish more did and not rely on some extra launcher.