Stress Test SCSI Hard Drives

[DirtySouth]

Hey Everybody, I haven't had much luck finding the right tool for my issue, so I'd appreciate any suggestions.

I've got a Dell 2950 server that appears to have either faulty HD drivers or a PERC controller. We have recently updated drivers and firmware and would like to run some kind of a stress test for 24 hours to see if it breaks. Any suggestions? It's a Server 2K3 box with 5x300GB Maxtor drives in a Raid 5 configuration. I would prefer to have a GUI based utility. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks in advance.

 

[mooseracing]

I don't know of anything for 24hrs, but SQLIO tool is a great one that measures throughput with real data. It is cmd line and allows for different size chunks of data.

Does the Dell Admin Server page have any faulty infor for the card or drives? You may want to download LSI's software to look at it as well.

 

[DirtySouth]

Bump...any other suggestions? Thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Isn't there a unix program called "bonnie"? I'm not very familiar with it.

 

[DirtySouth]

I think I may have found a couple good tools, so I'll share them with you in case anyone else is looking. IOMeter and bst514. I've only used IOMeter so far. It has a nice GUI and is pretty straight forward. You can customize a lot of different tests and can specify any length for the test to run. I appreciate the responses.