On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! > >
Now, don't you wear it out, you hear?!?!? ;-) If your machine runs all the time you can add smartctl runs as chron jobs that run at midnight and have the results emailed to you. Look at them once a week and other than an unpredictable catastrophic failure you'll likely know a long time before it fails. Cheers, Mark
