Hi !
I got your software (Extreme Ed.) from recommendation earlier this week.
Context:
-I have this PC/box that has been running for 2+ years (win xp pro),
- 3 new disks were added to the system last week (2 SSDs and 1 HDD).
- The system already had a RAID-1 (set of 2 disks) and 2 other drives, which run well and don't need testing.
Task:
- I need to insure the new disks are reliable / stable enough to use them (as i have limited time to return them to the shop).
solution Ideas :
a) running System stability testing : option Stress Local Disks (only)
From what i understand, using this test will stress all drives on the system, but i need to test only 3 drives out of 7.
Is there a way to select which drives will be stressed ?
running disk benchmark on each drive for 12-24 hours in loop mode (except for the Buffered Write test which you do not recommended for SSDs)
Apparently this should not be used for SSDs at all, so I have to revert to a) .
Also, running Write tests in loop mode (on the HDD) waits for "Drive Erase" confirmation on every loop, so I've renamed it "manual looping", unless there is a way to disable this confirmation ?
c) this would be your suggestion :-)
Thanks !