Stress Testing Hard Drives
James Sissel
jimsissel at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 10:18:16 CDT 2007
I stress tested a drive once by throwing it off a tall building. It failed.
Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote: Can anyone recommend a program or method of stress testing hard drives? I check memory/cpu with memtest86, but I would like some way to stress test a hard drive. Currently I dd urandom over it for a few days or DBAN it, but I'm looking for something more thought out. 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. Preserving data on the drive is (obviously) not a concern.
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