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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dale 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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>> Thanks |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Update. I went to the mailbox and there was a nice pretty brown box. |
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> Bad thing is, drive is OEM with just a blister pack around it. The box |
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> had almost no packing, just a small amount of brown paper. Ewwwwww! It |
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> was just flopping around in the box. |
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> Anyway, I stole a SATA cable from another rig and got this: |
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> root@fireball / # smartctl -t long /dev/sdd |
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> smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-3.5.0-gentoo] (local build) |
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> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net |
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> === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === |
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> Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately |
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> in off-line mode". |
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> Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in |
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> off-line mode" successful. |
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> Testing has begun. |
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> Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. |
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> Test will complete after Wed Aug 8 17:10:46 2012 |
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> Use smartctl -X to abort test. |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> 255 minutes. Wow. My plan, let this test finish, do a little bit of |
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> copy and rm, then test again. I figure copying 800Gbs to it should give |
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> it a little bit of a work out since I will be doing it twice. |
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> Yeppie. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> -- |
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> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Now, don't you wear it out, you hear?!?!? ;-) |
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If your machine runs all the time you can add smartctl runs as chron |
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jobs that run at midnight and have the results emailed to you. Look at |
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them once a week and other than an unpredictable catastrophic failure |
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you'll likely know a long time before it fails. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |