Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Casey Dougall
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > > I've always done the float test. Fill your sink with luke warm water. Add > approximately 1kg of table salt. Place drives in sink and if they float > they > are bad and should be returned. > > P.S. Don't ever do anything I say. > :D > >

RE: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Jacob
: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:20 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Best way to test new hard drives Boring ... On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jacob wrote: > > Link helps... > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > > ~

Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Erika L. Rich
Ahhh. Ok. I can understand that then ... On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Jacob wrote: > > Well.. we were testing them using sledgehammers and 338 Lapuas. Management > said it was getting expensive, so we had to come up with alternate testing > methods. So, we had to lower are quality testing

Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Erika L. Rich
Boring ... On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jacob wrote: > > Link helps... > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > > ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion ma

RE: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Jacob
Link helps... http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:07 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Best way to test new hard drives Ultimate boot CD has a few HD tools. I use it to test CPU, RAM and

RE: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Jacob
Ultimate boot CD has a few HD tools. I use it to test CPU, RAM and hard drives before a system goes into production. -Original Message- From: Matthew Smith [mailto:chedders...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:32 AM To: cf-community Subject: Best way to test new hard drives

Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread William Bowen
For it is written in the Book of SysAdmin, "the natural purity of the water shall accept unto its bosom only the truest and most pure hard disk." Yeah, verily, it is also written, "the water shall reject the evil hard disk with its impurities and thou shalt replaceth forthwith under terms of warra

Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Erika L. Rich
Brilliant! On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > > I've always done the float test. Fill your sink with luke warm water. Add > approximately 1kg of table salt. Place drives in sink and if they float > they > are bad and should be returned. > > P.S. Don't ever do anything I sa

Re: Best way to test new hard drives

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Grant
I've always done the float test. Fill your sink with luke warm water. Add approximately 1kg of table salt. Place drives in sink and if they float they are bad and should be returned. P.S. Don't ever do anything I say. :D ~| Wan