From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8AF13800E for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 722FCE0462; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A34FE0417 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-175-75.netcologne.de [78.35.175.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8C65DC048 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 18:05:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 18:05:44 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Message-ID: <20120805180544.1e713c34@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 15338a59-0568-47a9-8a49-cfee29561aad X-Archives-Hash: b7e13fc08b36561a949632c1836e5732 Dale writes: > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it is up > to the task before putting my data on it. It's going to be so much > data, there is really no way to do back-ups at this point. Come on, 2 > to 3Tbs on 4Gb DVDs. Really? lol Maybe a external drive later on but > for now, well. > > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have > never used it before. Maybe someone has some test that is really > brutal. smartctl -t long /dev/sdb will make the drive start a selftest. This will take a while, and even more if the drive is being used otherwise, as this test should not impact its performance. Use smartctl -l selftest to view the results. As long as there is no number in the 'LBA_of_first_error' column, it should be okay. That is a reading test only, badblocks -sw /dev/sdb will make it perform a write-mode test. It uses four different patterns, I would be okay with only one test, so I'd either stop it when it is done writing and comparing the first pattern, or supply a test pattern with option -t. Wonko