From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 04:04:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE6516A41A for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tgol@kinetix.gr) Received: from mail.kinetix.gr (mail.kinetix.gr [194.219.121.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D7E13C469 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tgol@kinetix.gr) Received: from [194.219.121.196] (tech01.kinetix.gr [194.219.121.196]) by kinetix.gr with esmtp; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:59:05 +0000 id 00416B0A.46FBEF69.00009416 Message-ID: <46FBEEBE.3030200@kinetix.gr> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:56:14 +0300 From: Thodoris User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don O'Neil , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001201c8012d$e747d620$0a00020a@mickey> In-Reply-To: <001201c8012d$e747d620$0a00020a@mickey> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tgol@kinetix.gr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:04:23 -0000 O/H Don O'Neil ??????: > I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need > to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk > first. > > What is the best way to do this? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I think that the best way to do this is by using the vendors specific test utility. All known HDD vendors have made utilities to test and find out some basic stats for their products. A very good way to get all the known utilities and much more small usefull programs to test hardware is the Ultimate boot CD. A very nice work has been done and very usefull small programms like memtest, maxtor(sea tools), western digital (dlg diag) etc are included. You can run a surface scan for your disk (that will surely get it to an edge) and find out its temperature, afterwards, and how responds in general. I have been using that for years to find hardware problems. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ -- Thodoris