1. I'm mainly interested in 'immediate' functional health, as in, the drive isn't already almost dead, and still reports clean across the board.
1a. Badblocks seems like a good program to perform a functional test, do I need anything else?
1b. If I don't want to run Badblocks on 25 disks can I use SMART data as an indicator of anything and what would the relevant values be?
2. For programs like Badblocks and other programs that look at SMART data, is it okay if the disk is configured as an individual raid 0 or do these things only work with passthrough storage modes? I think the only way I have right now to hook them up is via the Dell VRTX Shared PERC8 which is a raid adapter.
1a. Badblocks seems like a good program to perform a functional test, do I need anything else?
1b. If I don't want to run Badblocks on 25 disks can I use SMART data as an indicator of anything and what would the relevant values be?
2. For programs like Badblocks and other programs that look at SMART data, is it okay if the disk is configured as an individual raid 0 or do these things only work with passthrough storage modes? I think the only way I have right now to hook them up is via the Dell VRTX Shared PERC8 which is a raid adapter.