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i had the same question on here a few weeks and didnt get a response i was completely happy with. hd tune can do multiple Hds at the same time, just by opening more instances of the program. you can use the error check (surface scan) feature, which doesnt loop. or you can use the erase...

bump someones got to have an answer. this forum is filled with knowledgeable people!

i would like to give my new drives a serious work out before expanding my raid 5 array (which will probably take a good 30 hours on rocketraid 2522) going from 4x 1.5tb seagates to 5 drives. i wouls like to surface scan, show me in detail what it found and thrash the hell out of it. taking a...

thanks its just weird that it would have some kind of processor on it that gets pretty hot, if it wasnt doing anything.

i have a question about my highpoint rocketraid 2522 (which by the way, runs like a champ) it doesnt have any onboard cache, but it does have a heatsink that gets pretty hot, so does this thing qualify as software raid or hardware raid? thanks for your help! oh, and when reading/writing...