Ot hard drive stress test

[Alex Dean]

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