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On 2020-06-15, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I finally bought a 8TB drive. It is used but they claim only a |
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> short duration. Still, I want to test it to be sure it is in grade |
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> A shape before putting a lot of data on it and depending on it. I |
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> am familiar with some tools already. I know about SMART but it is |
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> not always 100%. It seems to catch most problems but not all. I'm |
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> familiar with dd and writing all zeores or random to it to see if it |
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> can in fact write to all the parts of the drive but it is slow. |
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It takes a long time to write 8GB no matter what tool you're using. |
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> It can take a long time to write and fill up a 8TB drive. Days |
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> maybe? |
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I would guess several days |
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> I googled and found a new tool but not sure how accurate it is since |
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> I've never used it before. The command is badblocks. It is |
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> installed on my system so I'm just curious as to what it will catch |
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> that others won't. Is it fast or slow like dd? |
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backblocks was designed to do what you want. For an 8GB drive, it |
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will probably take most of a week. |
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> I plan to run the SMART test anyway. It'll take several hours but |
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> I'd like to run some other test to catch errors that SMART may |
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> miss. If there is such a tool that does that. If you bought a used |
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> drive, what would you run other than the long version of SMART and |
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> its test? |
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babblocks would be a good start. |
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you could also use stress-ng with the "hdd" options: |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-benchmarks/stress-ng |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Maffblaster/Drafts/stress-ng |
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Grant |
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