testing of drives!

[Tod Merley]

My tendency would be to boot the boxes from Flash or DVD and test with
badblocks or fsck nondestructively obtaining a list of problems to then
help decide how to proceed with each box.   You could make a Flash drive
with the basic tools and scripts and then clone it to work with several
drives at once.

Time consuming but comprehensive.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:41 AM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> update::
>
> The boxes can be remotely/ssh accessed, so it would be easier if
> there's a solution that could allow us to simply run software tests
> over the net, to the boxes/drives that are installed/formatted if
> possible!!
>
> thanks again!!
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:39 AM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Morning --
> >
> > Got a situation where we have a number of used/older dell boxes
> > running centos/fedora (should be the same process of testing the
> > drives).
> >
> > Some of the boxes have already had the OS installed/drive
> > formatted/patitioned/etc.. Some have dual drives.
> >
> > We realized that we should have tested each drive prior to
> > installing/formatting/etc..
> >
> > So, now we're wondering what's the best/god way to test the drives.
> >
> > We'd like to put together a basic process to allow us to test the
> > given drive, preferably with the drive in the box/running/formatted so
> > we don't have to test the drive in a separate box!!
> >
> > So, any input we can get on software to use, articles to review, etc
> > in order to get a stable test process to get a good idea of the health
> > of our drives would be cool
> >
> > Issues to consider::
> > -We have running drives, that are partitioned/formatted
> > -we have drives in systems that we haven't started to use
> >    some primary formatted/some are installed as 2nd drives
> >
> > we need a way to be able to test all of the drives, preferably
> >  without taking the drive(s) out of a box and testing them in a separate
> box
> >
> > Concern is/are:
> >  -bad sectors/blocks
> >  -health of drive
> >  -capacity of drive
> >  -etc..
> >
> > we've looked into hdparam/smartctl
> >
> > thanks guys!
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