HDD Burn In with Python

[Irmen de Jong]

Anand Pillai wrote:

> Perl is a bit faster than Python in system related tasks and
> it is portable also.

[...]

> If you do write your app in Python, perform benchmarks to
> time the Python app itself.

Hokiegal99 didn't ask for a disk benchmark tool that has to
be high-performant, he (she?) wanted a harddisk IO stress tool.
Just letting your harddisk work hard for a long time doesn't
require optimized C code. Python is perfectly suitable for that.

The only problem is, that for a true harddisk stress test, you
will want to access sectors all over the disk. I'm not aware of
any mechanism to do that with portable Python...
(although you could format the disk in one huge partition and
then write random files to it until the disk is full).

--Irmen