I stress tested a drive once by throwing it off a tall building.&nbsp; It failed.<BR><BR><B><I>Billy Crook &lt;billycrook@gmail.com&gt;</I></B> wrote:  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Can anyone recommend a program or method of stress testing hard drives?&nbsp; I check memory/cpu with memtest86, but I would like some way to stress test a hard drive.&nbsp; Currently I dd urandom over it for a few days or DBAN it, but I'm looking for something more thought out.&nbsp; Preferably, a program that can run on a live system so I'd just attach the drive to be tested, and point the test at /dev/sdd or whatever dev it was on.&nbsp; Preserving data on the drive is (obviously) not a concern. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>