I guess that you are hoping to find SATA drive inside the enclosure. If true - you might be disapointed as a lot of these drives have native USB interface under the hood - unless you already know otherwise.
Additionally - the drive is most likely SMR - so your test should take that into account and write/read/write/read large blocks. Best luck, Tomas On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 22:53 -0700, Larry Brigman wrote: > In my former life as a test engineer for a disk company, we used > custom > testers to stress-test. > That eventually moved to custom code loaded directly on the device to > do > the work. > When I moved to Linux we used direct-io libraries to write and > read/verify > random or patterned data to the drive; in both seq, random and > butterfly. > Low-level tools like the sg3-utils have a large set of direct disk > access > tools. > Other tools to use are IOZone and FIO to run a large sample of tests > over > and over again. > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:30 PM Galen Seitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 9/2/20 9:43 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I bought an 8TB Seagate USB3 drive Real Cheap at Costco, > > > which I will eventually "shuck" to get at the SATA hard > > > drive inside. > > > > > > Voiding the hell out of the warranty, so I would like to > > > stress test it for a few months before I open the case. > > > There are many tools (like bonnie++) that can thrash a > > > hard drive, but they use more CPU than I would like. > > > > > > Is there a non-intrusive command-line hard drive test tool > > > that can stress-test a hard drive for months with minimal > > > CPU and RAM activity? How do server farms stress test > > > incoming drives before committing important data to them? > > > > I'm guessing it probably doesn't meet your criteria for a stress > > test, > > but the SMART long test won't load your system at all, since it is > > performed by the drive itself. I don't know how well the SMART > > tests > > work over a USB interface. I think there was a time when smartctl > > wouldn't work over USB, but that may have been solved long ago. > > > > There's also the badblocks command. I don't know how much it would > > load > > your system, but I bet it would be less than a program like bonnie > > which > > tests performance. > > > > galen > > -- > > Galen Seitz > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
