bitrot
Bitrot scrubber - Scrubs your disks (or array) looking for bitrot (silent disk data corruption.) (by marcopaganini)
stressdisk
Stress test your disks / memory cards / USB sticks before trusting your valuable data to them (by ncw)
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| bitrot | stressdisk | |
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| 1 | 10 | |
| 10 | 340 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.6 | |
| over 2 years ago | 10 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bitrot
Posts with mentions or reviews of bitrot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-03.
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Is it possible to detect stored image bit-rot changes by calculating and storing checksums?
It would seem so https://github.com/marcopaganini/bitrot
stressdisk
Posts with mentions or reviews of stressdisk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.
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Testing dozens of sd cards after 2 years
I actually played with that software for a few minutes and tested an NVME SSD and got no issues. Sucks up space very quickly (depending on disk speed), so it does seem to be a very useful tool. For ease of use, the ready to run binary files are here: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk/releases, and on windows, the CMD prompt you would use is
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Coming back to mister after 2 years
I never have issues with amazon and counterfeit SDs, then again i also tend to run burn in tests on any SDs i buy before actually putting them into service. Stressdisk is a really good one i like to go with.
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First time user
Whatever you decide, I'd run stressdisk for about 24h(the default time) before putting it into service, but maybe that's just the paranoia talking. It's pretty good at what it does.
- H2testw
- What tests should I perform after buying a new hard drive?
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Unrecognised drive when copying IMG file to USB
Consider the possibility of the drive being not entirely reliable. Careful use of StressDisk might reveal something.
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[HELP] External 4bay yottamaster keeps disconnecting
And as for the stress test: I've had them all in the enclosure. I disabled raid mode, so all 4 drives showed up individually, and then I ran https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk this script twice parallel on each drive. It did not die then :\
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[HDD] WD Elements 12TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive Black - $179.99 (Code: 93XQR27)
I like to use short smart, then stressdisk for 72h, then long smart. Or there's Hard Disk Sentinel that will do all that in one program. Sentinel costs money, but with a google search for a coupon, I think it's like $12. Great investment if you are going to be working with a lot of disks for, I dunno, a NAS. :D
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How to check an external hard drive before you shuck it?
If you're running Linux, I'd install stressdisk and see if any errors occur. Could save a lot of grief later.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bitrot and stressdisk you can also consider the following projects:
btrfscue - Recover files from damaged BTRFS filesystems
disk-burnin-and-testing - Shell script for burn-in and testing of new or re-purposed drives
fatcat - FAT filesystems explore, extract, repair, and forensic tool
mr-fusion - Mr. Fusion - Universal MiSTer SD card image
minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure
spurt - HTTP stress testing tool that can overload web servers.
hd-idle - Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
fstabfmt - :large_blue_circle: Format /etc/fstab automatically.