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== let's get physical... ==
 
== let's get physical... ==
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* you put your hard drive in, you pull your hard drive out, you put your hard drive in and you shake it all about
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** (not innuendo)
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* melt solder to short or remove components
 
* hit drive with a hammer (rubber, then metal)
 
* hit drive with a hammer (rubber, then metal)
 
* drop drive (in as far as is possible when attached to cables)
 
* drop drive (in as far as is possible when attached to cables)

Latest revision as of 15:47, 15 December 2014

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[edit] Measuring drive performance


[edit] Thrash the drive

Drive thrashing should involve the looping creation (write) and md5sum (read) and then deletion of files of random sizes. Data from /dev/zero

  • Is this efficient really? Do we need random filesizes? How about a range of constant sizes? Or just constant sizes?

[edit] Destructive testing

Test a drive and then stress it till the tests break. Keep going till the drive breaks...

  1. setup computer with an OS and boot drive.
  2. attach drive-to-test
  3. format drive
    1. consider two partitions, then read/write files on both to observe :D
  4. write data, md5sum written data (/dev/zero, or urandom data? Random size or predictable size? predictable sized zero data can have pre-known md5sums)
  5. apply test
  6. md5sum data again to check against bit corruption
  7. consider 'spamsum' to check for how MUCH of the data is corrupted.
  • consider applying all this in a loop which runs constant, generating files (/proc/partitions), md5sum, test, md5sum again, delete and repeat
  • 10meg files?

[edit] Magnets

I have alot of nice strong rare-earth magnets (from hard drives...)

  • test for effects of magnetic field when writing files as well as reading
  • test the effect of a moving magnetic field, vs a static one (as applied both before and after a format of the drive?)

[edit] foreign materials

  • open breather hole, apply smoke
    • thrash drive - how long till observable issues?
  • open breather hole, but apply liquid (water or coke)
    • will it seize up the drive? Or froth up the coke?
  • Drill hole - shavings do what now?
  • sparkler (inverted, through pre-drilled hole)
  • spray paint (after opening drive)** chalk spray
    • metallic spray
    • apply soot


[edit] let's get physical...

  • you put your hard drive in, you pull your hard drive out, you put your hard drive in and you shake it all about
    • (not innuendo)
  • melt solder to short or remove components
  • hit drive with a hammer (rubber, then metal)
  • drop drive (in as far as is possible when attached to cables)
  • open drive entirely... :)
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