Oh well, seems like there wasn't much else going on in here today anyway. Did we not get everyone over from the old list? I just got around to re-subscribing today.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 1:23 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] What's the best app to torture test new hard drives? He's a bit of a polarizing character, I find On 20 May 2013 18:18, listserve <listse...@rccs.org<mailto: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> [mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:drod...@gmail.com> -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
