Charles Curley wrote: > 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? > right now, we are mainly just exercising the disk to see if it fails during the testing. back to a previous post i just made, we are trying to remove any disks that might fail soon after going into production.
we do pull some smart information from the disks and that seems to be somewhat useful. mike /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
