Originally Posted By: jimhogan
I haven't found a good program to exercise hard drives, power-wise, so would be interested if anybody knows of a "cpu-plus-diskburn"-type program.


Which reminds me, that I was going to put a random seek test into hdparm someday, to supplement the -t timings. Someday..

What I was using here, was to simply start a kernel build with "make -j7", and once it gets going well, do an "updatedb" in another window, to saturate the primary drive with seek activity.

Cheers