Ot hard drive stress test

[Eric Shubert]

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 at crackpot.org 
> <mailto:alex at 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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