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    Recommended way to test new HDDs and SSDs

    in Benchmarking, system performance

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    Hi Fiery,

    Thanks for the clarifications and tips.

    One more thing, as I was hesitating between the Extreme and te Business edition of your softw. I read that the business Ed. has scripting feature. Would I be able to perform what is intended here with scripting ?

    ps: for the record, i've been doing this at least twice a year for the last 10+ yrs (i don't know how many hdds i have anymore)... was using unix tools such as bonnie++, orion, etc... only now I have to familiarize myself with Windoze alternatives, such as your softw.

    Cheers !

    Recommended way to test new HDDs and SSDs

    in Benchmarking, system performance

    Posted

    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 ?

    B) 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 !

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