Linuxen100
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Hello there,
I purchased these 2TB USB drives off of Amazon. It was actually labeled on Amazon 1TB but when the USB's came in they said 2TB. I plugged them in and they both had said on the drive when I put them in they were named "Vendor Product Co" both USB said they had 1.90TB of storage space. 1 of these USB were half full with nothing in it. I checked with hidden view to see hidden files but there was nothing on the USB so I did a quick format exFAT they both say 1.90TB storage.
After doing this I was concerned because I had already ordered 2 more after receiving these before checking them. So I read the reviews & I saw reviews saying it's a scam. I attached the reviews that made me concerned. After reading these I decided to look up ways to test the usb device.
I came across some tools online I am currently using to test one USB fakeflashtest 1.1.4 from rmprepusb.com.
This test seems to put 200MB.tmp files on the storage till its full to test it. I didn't think this was the kind of test I was looking for so I am trying on the second USB I got from them a program called flash drive/card tester 1.14 from vconsole.com
This test seems to device map the USB & perform a read/write comparison test. At the bottom of it it's mapped in square blocks with a color code. So far on this test the first 3 blocks of the USB have a recoverable write error. I am seeing in the log as the error mostly.
1. RMPrepUSB - I tried using the quick size test and the test would hang at the first step & never perform.
2.Check Flash - I read this is an old tool which was made in the early 2000s and comments saying this gives false errors on any USB that's higher then 64GB. So I did not try this.
3. h2testw - I heard this tool is considered the best to check even though its an old tool from the early 2000s. It puts 1GB chunks on the drive you select & verifies it by reading the data back that it put on the drive I have this but haven't tried it yet.
4. USB Memory Stick Tester - an old tool from 2005 that just writes data & reads it back. I have this but haven't tried this yet either.
These are all applications on windows & I was wondering if there's any Linux utility tools that I could do to test these USB to see what the storage actually is? If there is a tool which is better then what I listed here please let me know.
I still have those test running from the 2 apps I mentioned I am using as of this moment it looks like they are going to take over 24 hours to perform the test fully.
What do you all recommend I do in this situation?
I purchased these 2TB USB drives off of Amazon. It was actually labeled on Amazon 1TB but when the USB's came in they said 2TB. I plugged them in and they both had said on the drive when I put them in they were named "Vendor Product Co" both USB said they had 1.90TB of storage space. 1 of these USB were half full with nothing in it. I checked with hidden view to see hidden files but there was nothing on the USB so I did a quick format exFAT they both say 1.90TB storage.
After doing this I was concerned because I had already ordered 2 more after receiving these before checking them. So I read the reviews & I saw reviews saying it's a scam. I attached the reviews that made me concerned. After reading these I decided to look up ways to test the usb device.
I came across some tools online I am currently using to test one USB fakeflashtest 1.1.4 from rmprepusb.com.
This test seems to put 200MB.tmp files on the storage till its full to test it. I didn't think this was the kind of test I was looking for so I am trying on the second USB I got from them a program called flash drive/card tester 1.14 from vconsole.com
This test seems to device map the USB & perform a read/write comparison test. At the bottom of it it's mapped in square blocks with a color code. So far on this test the first 3 blocks of the USB have a recoverable write error. I am seeing in the log as the error mostly.
Of course I have no clue what this error means but it keeps coming up with different numbers in the ###. I began these test yesterday and they are still running 12 hours later. I tried looking at other tools as well but I wasn't entirely sure about them.! Write recoverable (1/3) error at LBN = ######### -- The Semaphore Timeout Period Has Expired. (121.)
1. RMPrepUSB - I tried using the quick size test and the test would hang at the first step & never perform.
2.Check Flash - I read this is an old tool which was made in the early 2000s and comments saying this gives false errors on any USB that's higher then 64GB. So I did not try this.
3. h2testw - I heard this tool is considered the best to check even though its an old tool from the early 2000s. It puts 1GB chunks on the drive you select & verifies it by reading the data back that it put on the drive I have this but haven't tried it yet.
4. USB Memory Stick Tester - an old tool from 2005 that just writes data & reads it back. I have this but haven't tried this yet either.
These are all applications on windows & I was wondering if there's any Linux utility tools that I could do to test these USB to see what the storage actually is? If there is a tool which is better then what I listed here please let me know.
I still have those test running from the 2 apps I mentioned I am using as of this moment it looks like they are going to take over 24 hours to perform the test fully.
What do you all recommend I do in this situation?