New Hard Drive Burn-in Ritual

Reference: https://perfectmediaserver.com/06-hardware/new-drive-burnin/

1. Run sudo lshw -C disk to see the drive name.
2. Grab the burn-in script if you don’t have it already.
3. Make sure you have tmux installed.
4. Create a new tmux session: tmux new -s burnin
5. Run the burn-in script on the new drive: ./disk-burnin.sh -f -o ~/burn-in-logs REPLACE-ME. Make sure the drive name here is correct!* E.g. sda, sdb, etc.
   1. By default it passes -b and -c to badblocks, with default values of 8192 and 64 respectively. You’ll want to override this.
   2. For -b, use lsblk -o NAME,PHY-SeC /dev/sdd to check the sector size of your disk and use that.
   3. For -c, in theory higher numbers will go faster but stress out the disk more and use up more memory. So perhaps leave this alone?
6. Wait a long while (e.g. a 12tb on Intimidator took roughly 13 hours). Since you’re in tmux, you can exit with Ctrl+B then D (think Vim commands), and the process will keep running in the background.
7. You can check in on the process with:
   1. tmux capture-pane -p -t burnin | tail -n 100
      1. Just prints out the last 100 lines
   2. tmux attach -r -t burnin
      1. Attaches in read-only mode so accidental keystrokes don’t mess with it.