I like the last two ideas, send me pictures once you've tried it. Seriously,
there must be some way to "overclock" your data bus, other than that I'm not
sure there's much you can do with hard disks. As far as I know that kind of
stuff is governed by the CPU, so overclocking the CPU might give you're
drive a run for it's money, although I imagine motherboards these days are
smarter than the 8085 board sitting on my desk. Realisticly, the only way I
could see stress testing them would be through some kind of overclocking or
pulling clocking capacitors from your motherboard which I'm assuming you
don't want to do. Why do you want to stress test them anyway?

-Peter

On 4/25/07, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:08:29AM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> > Now I need to test to see if it works under stress conditions for my
> > hard disks.
>
> You could yell at it and telling it that it's a "very bad disk" and that
> it'll just be obsolete a week from Tuesday.  If that's a rigorous enough
> stress test, you try could pounding on it with a framing hammer or giving
> it
> a bath. ;)
>
> -J
>
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>
>