Testing Hard Drives before RAID build

[jdv]

What should I be doing to my drives before building arrays with them?

Hitachi do a Drive Fitness Test and Seagate something similar but I have not been able to get either to work on a BootCamp Windows partition.

I tried formatting in Disk Utility and pulling some data on and off. I'm now running a scan for bad blocks in Drive Genius (is this worth it? It's going to take about a week at this rate). Anything else I should do?

 

[highdefw]

check this thread out...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/991025/

You cannot boot up windows through a raid in OSX.

 

[nanofrog]

What should I be doing to my drives before building arrays with them?

Hitachi do a Drive Fitness Test and Seagate something similar but I have not been able to get either to work on a BootCamp Windows partition.

I tried formatting in Disk Utility and pulling some data on and off. I'm now running a scan for bad blocks in Drive Genius (is this worth it? It's going to take about a week at this rate). Anything else I should do?

Ulitmate Boot CD should do you, as it has Hitachi's Drive Fitness Tool and Seagate's SeaTools for DOS. 🙂

I presume you've not actually created the array yet, going by the title you gave your post, so this should be all you need (rather than borrow a PC). 😉 If this isn't the case however, it won't work either (see thread highdefw linked).