A.K.A. SGRDF
- WJR On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com>wrote: > IMO, he's excellent at marketing. > > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:18 PM, listserve <listse...@rccs.org> wrote: > >> Uh-oh, does he have a reputation? :) I did contact GRC support and they >> gave me some tips for resolving some issues and answered my questions, but >> it’s still an unsupported configuration.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: >> listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *D Rod >> *Sent:* Monday, May 20, 2013 1:02 PM >> *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com >> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] What's the best app to torture test new hard >> drives?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Why don't you contact Steve Gibson, the author of Spinrite, and see if he >> can help you with this. I know he loves a challenge.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:55 PM, listserve <listse...@rccs.org> wrote:** >> ** >> >> I'm going to be ordering about 100 hard drives in the next month or so to >> upgrade our desktops over the summer. I'd like to be able to put 10(or >> more) of these at a time in 2 enclosures(5-bays each) I have and run >> thorough surface scans on them before installing them. (30 of them are >> going into workstations that are mounted in a computer lab where the drives >> will be more difficult to remove later) >> >> I've used Spinrite for years, and actually got it running in several VMs >> under hyper-v, using pass-through disks. This works well because I can scan >> multiple drives at once, which really is necessary since one scan alone can >> take 50 hours. Spinrite just doesn't get the SMART data while in a VM, but >> I can do that in the host with a different app. I'm also a little concerned >> that write-caching in the host could interfere with the accuracy of the >> surface scan, but have no way to know since this is an unsupported >> configuration for that app. >> >> Do you guys know of any other apps out there similar to Spinrite, that I >> can hopefully run in the host instead of inside a VM? My main requirement >> is that I be able to scan multiple disks at once. >> >> Any other thoughts on this? Better way to approach it altogether? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike**** >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Rodriguez >> drod...@gmail.com**** >> > >
