test harddrive to death

[Raven]

hi.

went out today and bought me a new shiny ibm deathstar 75gxp 46.1gb and want to push it to maximum for atleast 8 hours to find any weak spots so any ideas on how ?

defragging and copy several big files simultanously is what i intend to start with as soon as xp is finished installing.

Regards

Raven

 

[Rastalovich]

Make a few copies of u`r pagefile

Then put a bat file together to keep copying them and deleting them until u press a key.

lmao

 

[Raven]

more thinking of putting a 700mb avifile onto the harddrive and then copy it simultanously 4-5times until the harddrive is almost full and then defrag the harddrive.

dont know how long time it will take but is a quite hard work which should provide alot of headmovements.

 

[Rastalovich]

Windo$e will probably cease b4 the drive does >.<

LOL

(leave indexing on too )

 

[FarFarAway]

Why bother? I don't understand why you would want to do that?

 

[nathan]

if you want to test it (not sure why as im sure the manufactorers doa far better job at this before they ship the drive) i'd recommended doing it a way so the data you copy if different each time.

 

[Raven]

the harddrive was manufactured may 02 and was sold as a replaced/repaired and has a limited warranty so want to push it before i start to use it.

 

[FarFarAway]

the harddrive was manufactured may 02 and was sold as a replaced/repaired and has a limited warranty so want to push it before i start to use it.

OK now it makes sense