Hard drive performance and reliability tool question.

Kreeeee · 5 Jan 2010 at 09:31

Hello chaps.

I'm looking for a tool, preferably free, that can assess the health of a hard drive, and give it a really good thrashing during its test so I know I can rely on it in strenuous situations.

Cheers.

Kreeeee · 6 Jan 2010 at 14:08

Bump

Swordfish · 6 Jan 2010 at 14:09

Seatools.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d0d51d4dad651110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

I use it all the time to test the health of drives. Works on all makes.

JonJ678 · 6 Jan 2010 at 17:56

Do you have access to a unix based system or only windows? I test drives using badblocks (with destructive write on), it writes a specific sequence all over the drives, looks for mistakes (and tells you if it finds any) then writes a different sequence all over it. Any data on the drive is annihilated unsurprisingly. It took about two days to test a 750gb samsung of mine (it passed), and it certainly sounded like it was being thrashed.

Free of course. I ran it from an ubuntu live usb.

DeadMan · 7 Jan 2010 at 07:03

HDTune

Kreeeee · 8 Jan 2010 at 01:33

JonJ678 said:
Do you have access to a unix based system or only windows? I test drives using badblocks (with destructive write on), it writes a specific sequence all over the drives, looks for mistakes (and tells you if it finds any) then writes a different sequence all over it. Any data on the drive is annihilated unsurprisingly. It took about two days to test a 750gb samsung of mine (it passed), and it certainly sounded like it was being thrashed.

Free of course. I ran it from an ubuntu live usb.

If it can be configured as part of a bootable linux CD/DVD then that should be fine