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# disk-burnin-and-testing
Bash script for burnin and testing of new or re-purposed drives
_disk-burnin.sh_ is a Bash script to simplify the process of burning-in disks. It is intended for use only on disks which do not contain any data, such as new disks or disks which are being tested or re-purposed.
Be aware that:
* This script runs the `badblocks` program in destructive mode, which erases any data on the disk. Therefore, please be careful! __Do not run this script on disks containing data you value!__
* Run times for large disks can take several days to complete, so it is a good idea to use tmux sessions to prevent mishaps.
* Must be run as 'root'.
Performs these steps:
1. Run SMART short test
2. Run SMART extended test
3. Run `badblocks`
4. Run SMART short test
5. Run SMART extended test
The script sleeps after starting each SMART test, using a duration based on the polling interval reported by the disk, and adding an additional delay to account for discrepancies.
Full SMART information is pulled after each SMART test. All output except for the sleep command is echoed to both the screen and log file.
You should periodically monitor the burn-in progress and check for errors, particularly any errors reported by badblocks, or these SMART errors:
|ID|Attribute Name|
|---:|---|
| 5|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|
|196|Reallocated_Event_Count|
|197|Current_Pending_Sector|
|198|Offline_Uncorrectable|
These indicate possible problems with the drive. You therefore may wish to abort the remaining tests and proceed with an RMA exchange for new drives or discard old ones. Also please note that this list is not exhaustive.
The script extracts the drive model and serial number and creates a log filename of the form `burnin-[model]_[serial number].log`.
`badblocks` is invoked with a block size of 4096, the -wsv options, and the -o option to instruct it to write the list of bad blocks found (if any) to a file named `burnin-[model]_[serial number].bb`.
The only required command-line argument is the device specifier, e.g.:
`./disk-burnin.sh sda`
...will run the burn-in test on device /dev/sda
You can run the script in 'dry run mode' to check the sleep duration calculations and to insure that the sequence of commands suits your needs. In 'dry runs' the script does not actually perform any SMART tests or invoke the `sleep` or `badblocks` programs. The script is distributed with 'dry runs' enabled, so you will need to edit the `Dry_Run` variable, setting it to 0, in order to actually perform tests on drives.
Tested under:
* FreeNAS 9.10.2-U1 (FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE)
* Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 LTS
Tested on these drives:
* Intel DC S3700 SSD
* Intel Model 320 Series SSD
* HGST Deskstar NAS (HDN724040ALE640)
* Hitachi/HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 (HUS724020ALE640)
* Western Digital Re (WD4000FYYZ)
* Western Digital Black (WD6001FZWX)
Requires the smartmontools, available at https://www.smartmontools.org
Uses: `grep`, `pcregrep`, `awk`, `sed`, `tr`, `sleep`, `badblocks`
Written by Keith Nash, March 2017.