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Title: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 06 December 2014, 21:18:42

Finally figured it out..

There doesn't seem to any windoz programs that will do random read/write testing..

So....

Just fill the entire drive with torrents.. set max number of connections to ~2000 so that it doesn't kill your router..

and you'll hear them musical random i/o clicks..

(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/bye2-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862494)

Title: Re: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 06 December 2014, 22:22:23

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 06 December 2014, 21:18:42

Finally figured it out..

There doesn't seem to any windoz programs that will do random read/write testing..

Finally figured it out: windows is a bad OS for testing things.

http://phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=pts_desktop_live

Title: Re: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 07 December 2014, 03:07:50

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

Title: Re: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 07 December 2014, 11:36:18

Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 07 December 2014, 03:07:50

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

Quote

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

I can think of a few more that are more ubiquitous and popular than MHDD.

That said, it would appear that there are indeed several decent HDD diagnostics programs available for your OS of choice, unfortunate though it may be.

Title: Re: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 07 December 2014, 11:42:08

Any good tests for using on a new external hard drive?

Title: Re: How to Test your Harddrives
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 07 December 2014, 14:23:19

Quote from: SpAmRaY on Sun, 07 December 2014, 11:42:08

Any good tests for using on a new external hard drive?

You can use all the posted methods on an external..

HOWEVER.. it's not recommended unless the external has active cooling..

If it's a 5400rpm drive, it might be ok....  but NOT if it's a 7200rpm drive. (usually too hot)