HDD Read and write testing?
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What are the best applications for perfoming tough, hard read and write testing of a hard drive to make sure it is 101% perfect (well as perfect as a hard drive can be..)? Ive been playing around with Seagate's SeaTools, but id like some program which also writes, and verifys the written data, many times.. Anybody know of such applications? They must be like boot disks/CDs etc thanks! (hope this isnt posted many times, got 501..)
//Johannes
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What are the best applications for perfoming tough, hard read and write testing of a hard drive to make sure it is 101% perfect (well as perfect as a hard drive can be..)? Ive been playing around with Seagate's SeaTools, but id like some program which also writes, and verifys the written data, many times.. Anybody know of such applications? They must be like boot disks/CDs etc thanks! (hope this isnt posted many times, got 501..)
//Johannes
The staff of the German computer magazine c't (www.heise.de/ct) has written a good benchmarking tool for windows (h2benchw), which is available here: c't Software Tools, Freeware (neither PD nor OSS)[^] As for boot disks: Look into the EBCD (Emergency Boot CD) and UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) projects, they both offer benchmarking tools as well.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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The staff of the German computer magazine c't (www.heise.de/ct) has written a good benchmarking tool for windows (h2benchw), which is available here: c't Software Tools, Freeware (neither PD nor OSS)[^] As for boot disks: Look into the EBCD (Emergency Boot CD) and UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) projects, they both offer benchmarking tools as well.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
The German tool seems nice, but im looking more for bad sector detection, and i have some hard drives which im extremly sure are bad, but so far all programs that just read havent detected any faults. The hard drive tool from UBCD is good too, but it only scanned. I wonder if there are any ones that really read, write, compare and stuff..
//Johannes