Qualify/Certify/Test disks on FreeNAS before becoming part of a pool?

[DaPlumber]

Does anyone have any recommendations for soak/burn testing disks before deciding if they become part of a pool? Preferably at least a single pass to get the drive to mark/remap any bad sectors before ZFS sees it? Obviously looking at S.M.A.R.T. as well during the test.

 

[Yatti420]

badblocks will work.. I still prefer to reboot and boot a usb with hdat2..

 

[cyberjock]

Yes, we have a sticky on the topic....

 

[DaPlumber]

Yes, we have a sticky on the topic....

I was hoping for something a bit better than dd and a bit of free-form scripting... :p But yes, I did read that sticky.

 

[DaPlumber]

badblocks will work.. I still prefer to reboot and boot a usb with hdat2..

Oooh, badblocks. Hello old friend! Thanks for that, I really should spend some quality time spelunking through the FreeNAS image to see what's there.

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Computer Networks, 2nd ed., p. 254

 

[Yatti420]

badblocks is included.. Not speedy but can be useful for new disks etc..