Hard drive burn-in testing

[Old man NewBee]

Hi guys I'm an old dog trying to learn new tricks and would like a little help please...
I'm still waiting for my Mother board, so, in the mean time I've got a USB loaded with FreeNAS and set up an unused PC with an Asus P6X58D motherboard and 24GB ram... Is it ok use this for testing my 3 new WD 3tb HDDs?. Started the badblocks test and everything looked ok (0/0/0 errors) until it started the second round then I got (0,0,349560 errors) or such on all 3 drives. Seems to me that my rig is the problem, Thanks in advance.

 

[DrKK]

This kind of thing can sometimes happen if one of the data cables aren't right.

If you want to post the complete output of

Code:

smartctl -qnoserial -x /dev/ada0

and ada1, ada2 (assuming your drives are ada0-ada2---verify by running 'camcontrol devlist'), (either post the output in CODE tags with square brackets here in the forum, or on pastebin), I/we will take a look for anything that looks amiss on the drives themselves.

 

[Old man NewBee]

This kind of thing can sometimes happen if one of the data cables aren't right.

If you want to post the complete output of

Code:

smartctl -qnoserial -x /dev/ada0

and ada1, ada2 (assuming your drives are ada0-ada2---verify by running 'camcontrol devlist'), (either post the output in CODE tags with square brackets here in the forum, or on pastebin), I/we will take a look for anything that looks amiss on the drives themselves.

I'm waiting for the current tests (badblocks---3rd pass) to complete before I figure out and send in the report, Thanks for your patience. By the way you mentioned that if 1 of the data (SATA) cables is'nt right.... but the errors are on all 3 drives.