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Subject: [Leica] Hard Drive stress test program?
From: alal at poly.edu (A. Lal)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:32:34 -0500
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Thanks Douglas, I'll download it and try it out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Hard Drive stress test program?


> This is the only one I know of:
>
> http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm
>
> They also have a nice bit of free-ware that tells you
> when your drives are about to "self-destruct";-) -
> http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
>
> It's one of those little bits of software that either
> gives you (false) peace of mind or makes you panic
> (equally false) - but it certainly let me know that the
> internal drives on my PC were running much too hot -
> picking all the fluff out of the cooling fan fixed that!
>
> BTW: I always get the impression that using Windows is
> about the toughest stress you can subject drives to
> anyway;-)
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> On 06.12.2010 15:07, sonc.hegr at gmail.com wrote:
>> Solitaire?  ;-)
>>
>>
>> Sonny Carter
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:58 AM, "A. Lal"<alal at poly.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>> Which reminds me, I need a windows program that will burn in and stress 
>>> test a new hard drive.  Suggestions anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Lal"<alal at poly.edu>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group"<lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] ReadyNAS Questions.....
>>>
>>>
>>>> I, too, was interested in an NAS some time ago. My aim was to transfer 
>>>> my music colletion to hard disk and stream it to players around the 
>>>> home.
>>>>
>>>> This is a site I found particularly useful: smallnetbuilder.com
>>>>
>>>> If you look at the NAS section there are reviews of NAS' and a number 
>>>> of guides that will be of assistance to newbies.
>>>
>>> SNIP
>>>
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