Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote:
> > What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify
> > the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem
> > with too many writes to the same blocks).It is not only a problem of
> > filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself.Right now,I do
> > not remember of any.
> 
> smartd in smartmontools package <- more physical of the drive
> fsck                            <- filesystem check

dd and badblocks <- excercise the drive and to find out bad sectors on
drives with bad firmware or that have run out of remapping area (will hasten
the death of your SSD, though).

When in doubt, stick to smartmontools like Osamu said.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh