ncw/stressdisk
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Stress test your disks / memory cards / USB sticks before trusting your valuable data to them
5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2017-04-19 · latest 2025-09-17
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…a disk tester on the sd card and the main disk might be a good idea too. Here is one I wrote: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk
comment by nickcw · 2025-09-17 · in Apple Photos app corrupts images -
…all my media with it for 24 hours. In fact I'm testing two 5TB external Seagate drives as I type! https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk
comment by nickcw · 2020-03-26 · in New hard drive rituals (2018) -
…I wrote a program for stress testing hard disks. You can download the modern version of it here: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk It got used a lot to soak tests disk for servers that were going into production or being shipped out to far…
comment by nickcw · 2020-02-28 · in A broken memory module hid in plain sight -
If you like testing your media then you'll probably enjoy: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk my project to test media. I test all my flash / hard disks with it and have sent plenty back over the years which failed!
comment by nickcw · 2017-09-01 · in SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card