Dale 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. > > Thanks > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Update. I went to the mailbox and there was a nice pretty brown box. Bad thing is, drive is OEM with just a blister pack around it. The box had almost no packing, just a small amount of brown paper. Ewwwwww! It was just flopping around in the box. Anyway, I stole a SATA cable from another rig and got this: root@fireball / # smartctl -t long /dev/sdd smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-3.5.0-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Wed Aug 8 17:10:46 2012 Use smartctl -X to abort test. root@fireball / # 255 minutes. Wow. My plan, let this test finish, do a little bit of copy and rm, then test again. I figure copying 800Gbs to it should give it a little bit of a work out since I will be doing it twice. Yeppie. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
