Sent from my Android device. On Aug 6, 2012 4:22 PM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I > > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of > > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. > > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it is up > > to the task before putting my data on it. It's going to be so much > > data, there is really no way to do back-ups at this point. Come on, 2 > > to 3Tbs on 4Gb DVDs. Really? lol Maybe a external drive later on but > > for now, well. > > > > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some > > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if > > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have > > never used it before. Maybe someone has some test that is really brutal. > > I wouldn't want to torture the drive, but just make sure it works. > > What I do: boot parted magic liveCD, run ATA SECURE ERASE on the drive > (you probably need to suspend and awaken your machine to unlock the > drive, the GUI tool in the liveCD does this for you automatically), > that will do factory reformat/low-level reformat, then run SMART full > test which can take many hours. If it survives both of those, and > doesn't make audible clicking noises in the process, I feel confident > that it is in working order. > > Those steps are more important if I'm testing a used or refurbished > drive, for a new drive you may want to skip the secure erase and only > do the smart test. If SMART test passes then I don't think there's any > reason to run badblocks, but you can have it run during mkfs if you > want reassurance. > >
