Billy,
You may find something of interest here.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
This project is a live CD with a collection of free and open-source diagnostic utilities used for a number of PC diagnostic, data recovery, file system repair, disk wiping, etc. The website provides links back to those sources and you may find a specific stress test utility for the specific manufacturer of the hard drives you wish to stress test. I hope this helps.
Best Wishes,
Jeffrey A. McCright, A+ 816-210-3107 [email protected]
From: "Billy Crook" [email protected] To: KCLUG [email protected] Subject: Stress Testing Hard Drives Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:08:56 -0500
Can anyone recommend a program or method of stress testing hard drives? I check memory/cpu with memtest86, but I would like some way to stress test a hard drive. Currently I dd urandom over it for a few days or DBAN it, but I'm looking for something more thought out. Preferably, a program that can run on a live system so I'd just attach the drive to be tested, and point the test at /dev/sdd or whatever dev it was on. Preserving data on the drive is (obviously) not a concern.
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