[TriLUG] exhaustive disk testing

[Carl Crider]

I'm a fan of Spinrite.

On Dec 10, 2007 4:06 PM, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:

> > So the question is:
> > What is the best way to do a long, exhaustive disk test to
> > find out if the drive is really bad (and have some output
> > to include in our warranty claim)?
>
>
> For the Seagate, I use this (a bootable CD)
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
>
> and for WD, here is their bootable CD:
> http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=30
>
> fairly painless. If you want, stick the drive on another boxen for the
> test.
>
> john mitchell
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