Hardware For Bulk IDE Hard Drive Burn-In?

r0gue_ asks: "I work for a mid-size OEM hardware manufacturer. We ship approximately 300 to 500 IDE HDs every month across all our units. Currently we experience about a 4% failure rate (Maxtor and WDs), though in recent months it has been a couple percent higher. The problem is our systems are dedicated boxes with a non end-user friendly form factor. Virtually every physical HD failure results in an RMA. What we are looking for is a hardware based IDE HD burn-in platform. Something that we could drop a dozen or so drives in at once, stress test them for a day or two, then put them into inventory for builds. I know the HD manufacturers and larger OEMs use them but I have not been able to track down anywhere we could purchase one. Right now moving to SCSI or a form factor that supports externally removable drives is not an option. I was hoping that the Slashdot community could point me in the right direction."

Comments

Hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

"We sell expertise. The only catch: we are not experts ourselves." Worry not! There's always "ask Slashdot".

A-mazing.

What's with the lame Ask Slashdot questions lately? I'm fine with people asking stuff, all sorts of stuff, but lately there has been this trend "I'm too lazy to do my own job, could you please do it for me? And make that before 5, I'd like to go home." For godness' sake! If you are a OEM, call the fscking provider! They got to know this stuff. "Look, Joe, we are having this problem with the drives we are shipping, can you please tell me where to find stress testing hardware? And if it's not much of a problem, we'd like to avoid killing half of the drive's usable life while we are at it".

Is 576 drives at once enough for you?

[Rick the Red]

Why not do what this guy did?

Sheesh -- an Ask Slashdot that's already been answered on Slashdot! Not exactly a duplicate post, but apparantly the Editors aren't the only ones who don't read /.