On 9/19/2010 6:39 PM, ShadowTek wrote:
On 2010-09-19, John wrote:

If you want to stress the disk operations you can add on a batch file which
copies files back and forth, zips them, unzips them, compares them,
calculates MD5 codes or whatever your heart desires. Add sleep intervals as
appropriate or let the drive(s) grind at full speed as seems appropriate.

Simply using badblocks sounds a lot less complicated then all of
that.

It depends on what you want to test. Since badblocks is a Linux program and
does a one-time scan of the drive it is hard to see how it is going to
simulate a realistic system load for a week or more under Windows. As for
complicated, writing a BAT file to do some disk activity on a continuing
basis and exercise a system's drive(s) for a long period is pretty simple
and non-threatening.