Ot hard drive stress test

[keith smith]

Okay, Thanks!
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Keith Smith

--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:43 PM

They're the more expensive ones. ;)
Seriously though, for WD they're the Black labeled ones. I don't know for the other manufacturers.

keith smith wrote:
> 
> 
> If I go to a place like http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives  How do I know which drives are made for servers?
> 
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
> 
> --- On *Wed, 5/19/10, Brian Cluff /<brian at snaptek.com>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com>
>     Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test
>     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>     Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:20 PM
> 
>     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
>     </mc/compose?to=alex at crackpot.org>
>      > <mailto:alex at crackpot.org </mc/compose?to=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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