Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem with too many writes to the same blocks).It is not only a problem of filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself.Right now,I do not remember of any. smartd in smartmontools package - more physical of the drive fsck- filesystem check dd and badblocks - excercise the drive and to find out bad sectors on drives with bad firmware or that have run out of remapping area (will hasten the death of your SSD, though). When in doubt, stick to smartmontools like Osamu said. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.
What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives (the fading capacity problem with too many writes to the same blocks). It is not only a problem of filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself. Right now, I do not remember of any. HDD and SSD both work pretty hard at hiding physical limitations from the abstraction they present to the OS. The only way to get lower-level info is S.M.A.R.T, as far as I know. But, unless your use of SSHs is very atypical, there's no reason to worry about it. E.g. the problem with too many writes to the same blocks is solved by the SSD's wear-levelling algorithm. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem with too many writes to the same blocks).It is not only a problem of filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself.Right now,I do not remember of any. smartd in smartmontools package - more physical of the drive fsck- filesystem check Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
