I work with a company which uses the Passmark Burnin test V4.0 Pro on various sized Maxtor hard drives. On some tests, after about as quickly as 1 hour, we can see a large difference in the amount of cycles completed on the hard drives. There is no correlation between how big the hard drives are and how many cycles are completed, and whether or not they were formatted in FAT32 or NTFS. It almost appears as if some just randomly go slower. The difference is not small either. An example is this computer next to me which has been running for 26 hours, and has 232 cycles for one hard drive, and 1564 cycles for another. Neither have Critical or Serious warnings either.
On another note, which would you reccomend is better for testing hard drives, NTFS or FAT32 formatting. Also, do you think 48 hours is way too much stress for hard drives? Possibly even permanently damaging? Thanks in advance.
On another note, which would you reccomend is better for testing hard drives, NTFS or FAT32 formatting. Also, do you think 48 hours is way too much stress for hard drives? Possibly even permanently damaging? Thanks in advance.
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