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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: disk testing
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:48:17 -0600
Message-ID: <E5CE2090-2077-4D8C-87DC-5C8635B02A12@elevated-dev.com> (raw)
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What would you use to write/read/verify every sector of a hard disk? (I'm interested in really testing a disk, not in being lied to by S.M.A.R.T.)

Given what I've got spare for testing, either a Win7 application, or some LiveCD would be most convenient.

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