badblocks

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    ZOL - recover lacked MBR after physical problem

    We had a physical problem in our backup server (we suppose an electrical shock due to the thunderstorm). The system is Linux Debian on a disk and the storage in on a two 4 TB disks RAID-1 ZFS (ZFS On Linux) pool. The first symptom we discovered was a frozen system. After we had multiple erratic...
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    Badblocks Report

    I just ran a 'badblocks' command over some of my old HGST 3TB platters I exchanged recently here overnight. It appears to me a drive just died tonight during the testing as it wrote an 11.6G output file of bad blocks and can't be accessed anymore. I tested the drive on Thursday last week with...
  3. BLinux

    announcing my "bulk hard drive testing" script for Linux on STH

    in various "Great Deal" threads, I've shared how i run badblocks to test my HDDs and during some of those great deals, I use my 24-bay Supermicro to test as many as I can in parallel. in the most recent of such discussions here...