Know anything good and free, I know the s tandard prime95 and such, but i want to work out the hard disk and other components as well.

8/4/2005 8:16:50 AM

Memtest86

8/4/2005 8:31:13 AM

harddisk

8/4/2005 8:51:42 AM

a large and powerful magnet

8/4/2005 9:04:43 AM

well there's no reason to burn in a hard drive. But you can scan for bad sectors using checkdisk. But you can benchmark it using

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

8/4/2005 9:05:20 AM

Well, after having a failure rate of over 20% in the first 6 months at my office, im beginning to become a little concerned with the drives

8/4/2005 9:07:58 AM

My goal here is to ahve like a dos or linux boot disk that runs all the hardware for a week...hard before we deploy these systems to people. Every failure can cost us hours of work rebuildign the computer (luckly we really ahvent experienced data loss...yet..but thats only a matter of time before sombody who isnt putting there data in the right place gets wacked)

8/4/2005 9:10:01 AM

I like Sisoft Sandra.

8/4/2005 10:33:22 AM

are these all the same model? sounds like a bad batch. I know the laptop drives from dell at work all had head crashes at the same time because of some defect in the drives. You may have gotten a bunch of bad drives.

8/4/2005 11:40:36 AM