HDD stress test

[Joshi]

Hi guys,

Is there any hard drive stress tester available for free? Sometimes my hard drive makes noise i want to test its performance...any ideas?

[Orson]

Which HDD you are using? Go to manfactures website and they must have provide utility to test the HD performance. This is usually burn-in style test. But testing the hard disk still doesn't ensures that it won't create any bad sectors in near future.

[Fabian]

Have you tried Defrag? there are many good tools are available for the Defrag. if it doesn't makes noise during defrag then it may not be the noise of hard disk as defragmentation uses many random seeks, which creates the most noise. You can try HD Tach utility.

[Rawko]

Uue the HeavyLoad V2.4 , its free ware and works really good for me.

Description :

Heavyload will try to stress all resources of a PC (like CPU, RAM, harddisk, network, operating system, etc.) in order to test, if it will run reliable under heavy load.

This is useful for testing important NT file or database servers before using them productively, or just to check if your new PC might get too hot when used intensively.

To stress your PC or server, HeavyLoad writes a large test-file to the temp folder, it allocates physical and virtual memory and it draws patterns in its window.