He's a bit of a polarizing character, I find
On 20 May 2013 18:18, listserve <listse...@rccs.org> wrote: > Uh-oh, does he have a reputation? :) I did contact GRC support and they > gave me some tips for resolving some issues and answered my questions, but > it’s still an unsupported configuration.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: > listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *D Rod > *Sent:* Monday, May 20, 2013 1:02 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] What's the best app to torture test new hard > drives?**** > > ** ** > > Why don't you contact Steve Gibson, the author of Spinrite, and see if he > can help you with this. I know he loves a challenge.**** > > ** ** > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:55 PM, listserve <listse...@rccs.org> wrote:*** > * > > I'm going to be ordering about 100 hard drives in the next month or so to > upgrade our desktops over the summer. I'd like to be able to put 10(or > more) of these at a time in 2 enclosures(5-bays each) I have and run > thorough surface scans on them before installing them. (30 of them are > going into workstations that are mounted in a computer lab where the drives > will be more difficult to remove later) > > I've used Spinrite for years, and actually got it running in several VMs > under hyper-v, using pass-through disks. This works well because I can scan > multiple drives at once, which really is necessary since one scan alone can > take 50 hours. Spinrite just doesn't get the SMART data while in a VM, but > I can do that in the host with a different app. I'm also a little concerned > that write-caching in the host could interfere with the accuracy of the > surface scan, but have no way to know since this is an unsupported > configuration for that app. > > Do you guys know of any other apps out there similar to Spinrite, that I > can hopefully run in the host instead of inside a VM? My main requirement > is that I be able to scan multiple disks at once. > > Any other thoughts on this? Better way to approach it altogether? > > Thanks, > > Mike**** > > > > > -- > Daniel Rodriguez > drod...@gmail.com**** > -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
