I like WD as well. Their warranty exchange process is a breeze, and they
also have a nice customer loyalty program that saves some $$ when
replacing a drive that is out of warranty.
AFA testing goes, I simply use mkfs.ext3 and use 2 -c flags. This does 4
complete cycles (1010, 0101, 1111, 0000) of writes and reads to the
partition. I do this especially on used drives, but have begun doing it
on new ones as well. Not exactly a stress test, but I'm more interested
in finding existing problems than causing new ones. ;)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Shawn Badger wrote:
> +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 <alex@crackpot.org
> <mailto:alex@crackpot.org>> 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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