Stress testing/burning in HDDs

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> What is the best way to do this?
>
> It's reasonable to start with something like a:
>
>  dd if=/dev/your_disk of=/dev/null bs=5120
>
> ...to at least try reading every sector on the drive as a basic sanity check.

why so small blocks of 10 sectors?

i use bs=64k at least goes faster.

> Better would be to install /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and run some 
> SMART self-tests via:
>
>  smartctl -t long /dev/your_disk
>
> smartctl even understands some types of RAID controllers, but not all of 
> them....
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
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