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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

24 June 2008, 10:01am

With the latest HD failure now swapped for a new one I've written a simple program that creates enough 1GB files to fill the drive, then runs in a loop that randomly chooses a file, seek point, block size, and whether to read or write data. It runs for 7 days.

It's not perfect but the idea is to give a new HD a bit of a thrashing to see if it's going to die as youngun - rather than keeping it as a spare in its factory packaging until needed...