Re: Long test taking ages

2016-10-08 15:37 GMT+02:00 Carlos E. R. <[email protected]>:
> The test is transparent, but does influence the operation of the disk,
> making computer disk operation slower, and conversely, those operations
> make the test slower. This is specially true while the disk is testing
> for surface errors.
>
> Thus you should program the long test to happen when the hard disk is
> basically idle. Probably not all disks at the same time. Perhaps a
> region of the disk at a time. It may be possible that different hard
> disk brand handle differently.

Thank you for the response.
My biggest concern it that only on some of my servers is happening this.
I have about 1 hundreds servers and only on 2 or 3 the smart test is
causing very high load.
And these servers aren't the most loaded.

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