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On Aug 6, 2012 4:22 PM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> |
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> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I |
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> > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of |
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> > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. |
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> > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it is up |
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> > to the task before putting my data on it. It's going to be so much |
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> > data, there is really no way to do back-ups at this point. Come on, 2 |
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> > to 3Tbs on 4Gb DVDs. Really? lol Maybe a external drive later on but |
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> > for now, well. |
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> > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some |
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> > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if |
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> > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have |
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> > never used it before. Maybe someone has some test that is really brutal. |
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> I wouldn't want to torture the drive, but just make sure it works. |
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> What I do: boot parted magic liveCD, run ATA SECURE ERASE on the drive |
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> (you probably need to suspend and awaken your machine to unlock the |
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> drive, the GUI tool in the liveCD does this for you automatically), |
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> that will do factory reformat/low-level reformat, then run SMART full |
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> test which can take many hours. If it survives both of those, and |
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> doesn't make audible clicking noises in the process, I feel confident |
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> that it is in working order. |
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> Those steps are more important if I'm testing a used or refurbished |
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> drive, for a new drive you may want to skip the secure erase and only |
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> do the smart test. If SMART test passes then I don't think there's any |
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> reason to run badblocks, but you can have it run during mkfs if you |
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> want reassurance. |
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