Testing (stressing) hard drive, RAM and video memory

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Hello Everyone!
I was wondering how to test hard drive, RAM, and video memory, as it is done in AIDA or Victoria, MHDD etc.

About hard drives:
Is it just the process of copying some files and capturing its statistics?

RAM:
Writing and reading data?

Video memory:
running some 3D (or\and 2D) graphics?

If there any sources for further learning, please share it with me!

Posted 12-Apr-15 4:14am

morris “mason” bonham

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Frankie-C · Answer 1 · 2015-04-12T04:44:00

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Hard stressing will always remain a relative definition, because in spite of all your efforts there will be a condition for failure that was not touched in the test ;-)
Apart from Murphy's law, if there is something in particular that you want test it's better to concentrate on it instead.
you can start googling around to find something like this[^].

Posted 12-Apr-15 4:44am

Frankie-C

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Apr-15 11:41am

5ed. You could same the same about testing in general. Testing cannot prove anything, if it is passed, but it proves the existing of defects if any found.
—SA

morris “mason” bonham 14-Apr-15 8:56am

My question was not clear at all...
I mean, how can I get read and write speed statistics and catch them to show in some label fields in program? Like geting average speed of writing, reading...

Frankie-C 17-Apr-15 11:17am

You mean ready data as in here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/aa394308(v=vs.85).aspx

morris “mason” bonham 18-Apr-15 6:56am

Yeah! Thank You!