OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver VS rmlint

(Note: for USB drives a special kernel driver was required to access SMART data on OS X. I don't know what the current state with this is on current versions of macOS. Maybe Apple has added own support for it by now? The external extension sadly looks a bit outdated: https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver )

link 1, link 2

The SAT SMART driver the op posted - https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver

the only way to access is by installing special drivers OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver ( source | binary) which I will do once my computer is done the current tasks so I can unmount all drives as required

My preferred solution is rmlint [https://github.com/sahib/rmlint] mostly because it also looks at duplicate directories. It produces a bash script instead of deleting anything itself, so you can examine it before running the script it made.

After I removed duplicates (with help of https://github.com/sahib/rmlint ), I migrated my photos to an ordinary zpool instead.

For the technically savvy among you there is an excellent open source program called ‘rmlint’ (aka. Remove Lint). It is excellent at finding duplicates and saved me terabytes of space.

You don’t say if you are on Windows or Unix. I have used rmlint successfully in the past.

dupeguru or rmlint

rmlint, my friend, is the last tool you will ever need for this

I use and test assorted duplicate finders regularly.

fdupes is the classic (going way way back) but it's really very slow, not worth using anymore.

The four I know are worth trying these days (depending on data set, hardware, file arrangement and other factors, any one of these might be fastest for a specific use case) are https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes , https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind , https://github.com/jvirkki/dupd , https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

Had not encountered fclones before, will give it a try.