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RAID Stress Test - Looking for Software

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there isn't a real way to stress test hard drives in a raid config unfortunately. A raid setup is alot different from something like a cpu that is made for performing calculations. the main thing is making sure you are using good quality wd or seagate drives that are made for raid scenarios like reds or nas drives and not greens or crap tier hitachis

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I currently have 4 3TB HDD in RAID 5, is there any software to stress test the configuration? I tried GSmartControl but it lets me test the individual drives, not the RAID itself.

 

Thanks in advance.

why do you want to stress test to RAID array?

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why do you want to stress test to RAID array?

The RAID I set up will be used to store the backup of very sensible (and valuable) data, I've been asked to stress the system out to make sure that from the moment that the data in transferred in it we will not need to do anything other than the usual maintenance. 

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there isn't a real way to stress test hard drives in a raid config unfortunately. A raid setup is alot different from something like a cpu that is made for performing calculations. the main thing is making sure you are using good quality wd or seagate drives that are made for raid scenarios like reds or nas drives and not greens or crap tier hitachis

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there isn't a real way to stress test hard drives in a raid config unfortunately. A raid setup is alot different from something like a cpu that is made for performing calculations. the main thing is making sure you are using good quality wd or seagate drives that are made for raid scenarios like reds or nas drives and not greens or crap tier hitachis

Thank you, I expected this answer based on my research but I tried anyway. Unfortunately I've been asked to set up the RAID with the already available HDD (WD Green) even if I reported that there could have been issues with them (the "power saving" properties of the green WD could cause problems with the RAID). They expect me to set up a beefy setup but the moment there is a cent to pull out of their wallet they say no (we don't even have a RAID controller, just a 60€ mobo =/ )  

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What? You can't stress test a RAID array?

 

So took the challenge of simulating your problem, search the web for "RAID Stress Test", guess what? There are too many hits for that search to just list one out, did you even try?

 

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