On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:52:50 -0700 Mike Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
> does anyone have good recommendations as to some tools or utilities > to use for exercising or burning in new hard disks? where i work, we > buy *a lot* of disks and currently use a utility called thrash [1]. > we just have it do a couple million random writes to the disk. but i > could use some other tools to test the disks in different ways as > well to get a better idea if the disk is going to hold up. i've > thought about using bonnie++ or iozone as well. what you any of you > use, if anything? thx. What are you testing for, and why are you testing for those things? Is there anything in the first list you can't test for with the on-board diagnostics, SMART? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
