Need help in simulating long-term SSD usage

Open request for assistance:

I've been trying to fill my SSD's with data over the past several hours. I'm having some success with artificially introducing the slow downs that happen after long-term use.

I would like to use IOMeter to fill the drive as done at PCPer and Tom's Hardware since this seems to be the industry's consensus on how to do this. My attempts with BartPE have failed and I'm mostly Linux inept.

I need help from some forum member to either explain the steps to, or create me and ISO for a Linux-based loader with the ability to run IOMeter. I'm not sure if a modified Grub boot ISO would be able to run IOMeter.

Requirements:

• Some Linux distribution that includes the ability to adjust/create/delete partitions
• Bootable media must support the Intel RAID Matrix Storage driver
• Able to run IOMeter (http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html)

Any help would be appreciated!

 

This might work for windows , you can tell it to do a read/write test until it detects an error.

I have used it with 8gb flash , not certain about larger but give it a try, or do you just need to test one single memory element until failure.

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/03/21/how-to-check-and-test-usb-flash-drive/

 

Thanks, I may try it.

I'm really looking to use IOmeter like they do at a few test sites.

It would be easy if I could just pull the drive out of the laptop and hook it up to my workstation. I can't do this since the SSD's in the new Z have a proprietary ribbon SATA connector.

 

I'm pretty sure that the Ubuntu livecd supports dmraid (fakeraid) devices. You should be able to boot that and mess with the partitions with gparted and if iometer isn't there by default then you can always just apt-get it...