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 7F52B13800E for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07CC6E04F2; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F82E039A for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggmb6 with SMTP id b6so459418ggm.40 for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:45:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GK1kJeZniFXuBDE72opepjXEzzuHnVwFE+pz8AoyUAU=; b=YN+IuktHkLN6H1tNYxC7iyzOh9CGmQh7bZO6b1u4dg95lEbrP3rYSyw+Og3Kl5rhrF VnX7rcHBAOk1z7+4zkeBkItkE2BnufsxAYFwaC5huPC8vqx83EMr51J23WyXxFnt1OdY f84Ubyrb+2YgRLqWpndCW8mkXhN/W+jRhPJCIwAhZx9JkD9jrw68iUHM2N2wepM/S0n7 HW0ZNAg7I8xG/0Wypz6FpFXxoIE/fJpTyEebxhaVCIFQGi/L8a4keWoPt2VxIye9yo+k 7Oib1tSfG71gA8EHdBl25PDbWzuMreZ9ufgz9NikR/NGTClGubLnk8yoc5jWxax0EN6h ikAQ== Received: by 10.101.180.30 with SMTP id h30mr2202399anp.52.1344170748990; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-140.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y10sm26447151yhd.6.2012.08.05.05.45.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:45:46 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Firefox/14.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: acc7d070-c580-4564-b64a-e86a47573483 X-Archives-Hash: a3b041e2e181e49f5fec6a3e0a781435 Howdy, 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. Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!