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    Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

    The Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DFT) is on the company's website and is bootable with a floppy or CD.

    This seems to be a really good drive test/burn-in program & works with all brands of hard drives. The "fitness test" can be run for any number of passes. I ran a 20 pass test last night and it took about 10 hours.

    For those of you who use this program, how many passes do you run to consider a drive "stable"? I want to give it a thorough test but don't want to degrade it. Thanks.
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    Re: Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

    why doesn't this nice program tell you that?
    <wink>

    i don't think it works that way. my drives are stable without any tests...what's more torturing them will probably just cut their lifetime...after all hdds are mechanical deivices...the more they work, less time remains....

    and i never heard hdds need "burn-in".

    so in the end that program sounds like a gimmick...

    all you can do is try to pick reputable brand of hdd....
    so at the moment you shouldn't be getting seagate 7200.11.....and few others...there's a thread here somehwere, look for it...

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      Re: Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

      Originally posted by i4004
      why doesn't this nice program tell you that?
      <wink>

      i don't think it works that way. my drives are stable without any tests...what's more torturing them will probably just cut their lifetime...after all hdds are mechanical deivices...the more they work, less time remains....

      and i never heard hdds need "burn-in".

      so in the end that program sounds like a gimmick...

      all you can do is try to pick reputable brand of hdd....
      so at the moment you shouldn't be getting seagate 7200.11.....and few others...there's a thread here somehwere, look for it...
      I actually do need a program to torture the drive, since if it's going to fail, or is faulty I'd like to know about it.

      I just wasted a bunch of time (about a week) trying to get a system reliable & stable only to find out the HDD was bad. One of these programs might have saved me some time.

      I don't think the program is a gimmick....most all HDD mfgs. have similar programs. Maxtor's Maxblast, Seagate's Seatools, etc. They also allow you to totally wipe drives clean and other things.

      ...just wondering how long to "torture" the clumsy mechanical thing!

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        Re: Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

        The drive I had that failed had an electronics issue that caused it to operate slowly/intermittently....the specific test from hitachi is the only one I can think of that actually has a "fitness test"......

        For your amusement, fellas:



        Enjoy!

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          Re: Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

          Well, I guess 24-48 hours would be a reasonable amount of time according to this from their website: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/dft/dft.htm

          "...In Exerciser mode, DFT performs random reads and writes for a user-specified length of time. This mode is designed to simulate normal drive use and is intended to find the small class of intermittent problems that appear and disappear. "

          I guess I answered my own question. Just wondering what you guys do to test HDDs. So far, it's been a cool little utility.

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            Re: Hitachi Fitness Test (Drive Fitness Test)

            I test with a hiren's boot cd. I like the modified wd scanner. gwdiag

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