freeware hard drive stress test software reccomendations?

[acemcmac]

title says it all

thx in advance

 

[KoolDrew]

A stress test? How about defragging? That puts a lot of stress on the drive. I can't think of anything else really.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Wrong forum.

 

[acemcmac]

well, I don't need to test the HD as much as the whole IO system of the box... seemed like a hardware question to me