Ot hard drive stress test

[Brian Cluff]

I'll third on western digital, seagates are also pretty good, but 
whatever you do don't even start to consider Maxtor.  They seem to have 
a near 100% failure rate.  It's not if they are going to fail, but when.

Also don't go with any hard drive manufacturers budget line or low end 
drive, try and go for drives that are made for server.  They aren't all 
that much more, but seem to have much lower failure rates.

Brian Cluff

On 05/19/2010 03:14 PM, 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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