Re: Ot hard drive stress test

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Author: Shawn Badger
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test
+2 on Bonnie++

I also tend to like the Western digital line for IDE/SATA drives. I have had
a few bad ones (out of hundreds), but they tend to run well for me.



On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Alex Dean <> wrote:

>
> On May 19, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote:
>
> Hey,
>>
>> I am buying a new hard drive for my computer and I was wondering what are
>> some good hard drive stress test and how long should I let it run for. I
>> also do not mind what platform (windows, mac, or linux) it will run on.
>> Speaking of hard drives, which brand do u guys recommend?
>>
>
> Bonnie++ is a disk benchmarking tool, but you can use it for stress testing
> as well. Pretty easy to compile on Linux. I'm not sure if it works on OSX
> or windows.
>
> alex
>
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