On 12/18/2010 01:26 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Sounds good...will this also exercise the hardware enough to see if it
has become flaky over the years? I have used floppy based drive testers
that run for hours/days that also report if the drive is flaky over time
with a lot of usage.
SMART will
I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) that use to be in my laptop,
but I ran out of room so I replaced it with a larger drive. I have the
WD1200 in one of those nifty ez-upgrade USB drive enclosures and it mounts
and works just fine. I need some portable back up space, so I thought I
From: Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz
I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
problems before I use it as a backup drive.
If you don't care about the data on the disk, plug it in, then in an
Use the manufacturer's diagnostic software, they all have their own.
Simply go to the website and click support, look for diagnostic hard
drive software. Most of them require that you extract the files to a
bootable cd or floppy disk and run the test outside linux or windows.
If the hard drive
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote:
From: Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz
I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
problems before I use it as a
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote:
Look for Bonnie++ its for hdd testing
I found it, but I can't find a way to specify which hard drive to test.
Based on reading the man page and some googleing, I think it only tests the
drive with the root file system. I
Hiya,
Found a passel of S.M.A.R.T. stuff for Linux/Unix/Mac.
I think Bonnie++ is best for file systems (soft errors).
- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
In this article, I explain how to use smartmontools' smartctl utility and
smartd dæmon to monitor the health of a system's
