Top 4 Go Disk Projects

hd-idle

13 506 5.1 Go

Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility

Project mention: How does OMV handle hard-drive spin down? | /r/OpenMediaVault | 2023-12-05

What hard drives are you using? Some don't like the hdparm function which is what I believe OMV/Debian use to govern hd spindown. If you're on Seagate Exos drives, for example, those drives don't work with hdparm. I had to use hd-idle for mine: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

stressdisk

10 340 4.6 Go

Stress test your disks / memory cards / USB sticks before trusting your valuable data to them

Project mention: Testing dozens of sd cards after 2 years | /r/VIDEOENGINEERING | 2023-06-12

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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diskusage

1 257 7.1 Go

💥A tool for showing disk usage(Linux, MacOS and Windows), it is a very fast utility to find largest directories or files.
bitrot

1 10 0.0 Go

Bitrot scrubber - Scrubs your disks (or array) looking for bitrot (silent disk data corruption.) (by marcopaganini)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).