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disktest - Hard Disk (HDD), Solid State Disk (SSD), USB Stick, Memory Card (e.g. SD-Card) tester
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`https://bues.ch/h/disktest <https://bues.ch/h/disktest>`_
Disktest is a tool to check Hard Disks, Solid State Disks, USB sticks, SD cards or similar storage media for errors.
It does so by writing a pseudo random sequence to the device and then reading it back and verifying it to the expected pseudo random sequence.
This tool can be used to:
* Check disks for hardware errors (e.g. platter errors, Flash errors, etc...).
* Overwrite storage media with a cryptographically strong pseudo random stream. This can either be used to delete existing data on the disk, or to prepare the disk for encryption.
* Test for tampered media that pretend to have more storage area than they physically actually have. Sometimes such media are sold by fraudulent sellers for cheap prices.
* ... probably lots of other tasks.
The random number stream is a concatenation of hashes generated by the following algorithm:
::
S := PBKDF2(SEED | THREAD_ID)
LOOP {
HASH_DATA[I] := SHA512(S | HASH_DATA[I-1] | I)
I := I + 1
}
If more than one thread is used, then each thread generates such a hash stream, which are then interleaved in a regular
pattern.
The algorithm can also be switched to a CRC based algorithm, that is much faster, but *not* cryptographically secure. However CRC is sufficient to find physical disk errors. Disktest defaults to the secure SHA512 based algorithm.
Dependencies
============
* `Rust (edition 2018) <https://www.rust-lang.org/>`_ or later.
* Crate dependencies will automatically be downloaded by cargo.
Installing from crates.io
=========================
Download the latest version of disktest from `crates.io <https://crates.io/>`_ and install it to `$HOME/.cargo/bin`:
.. code:: sh
cargo install disktest
Installing from source package
==============================
Build disktest and install it to `$HOME/.cargo/bin`:
.. code:: sh
cd path/to/source/package
cargo install --path .
Running from source package without installing
==============================================
Build and run disktest in place without installing it:
.. code:: sh
cd path/to/source/package
cargo run --release -- DISKTEST_OPTIONS_HERE
See below for a description of the available `disktest` options.
Disktest command line options
=============================
Please run either of the following commands to show more information about the available command line options.
.. code:: sh
cargo run --release -- --help
cargo run --release -- -h
disktest --help
disktest -h
Speed
=====
The following table shows some example speed measurements of disktest in various operation mode on different hardware.
These speed tests don't write to an actual disk, but only to the `/dev/null` device, which is a device that does nothing. So these speed test results do not include the speed limits of any actual disk hardware.
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Command Algorithm Hardware Data rate written
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disktest -j6 -w /dev/null SHA512 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T; 6 cores 3.2 GHz 675 MiB/s
disktest -j6 -ACRC -w /dev/null CRC AMD Phenom II X6 1090T; 6 cores 3.2 GHz 4.6 GiB/s
disktest -j4 -w /dev/null SHA512 Intel i5-3320M; 2+2 cores 2.6 GHz 250 MiB/s
disktest -j4 -ACRC -w /dev/null CRC Intel i5-3320M; 2+2 cores 2.6 GHz 3.4 GiB/s
disktest -j4 -w /dev/null SHA512 Raspberry Pi 4; 4 cores 1.5 GHz 75 MiB/s
disktest -j4 -ACRC -w /dev/null CRC Raspberry Pi 4; 4 cores 1.5 GHz 605 MiB/s
=============================== ========= ======================================= =================
The read data rates are similar, because the algorithm used is exactly the same.
Note: The default rust compiler shipped with Raspberry Pi OS is too old to compile Disktest. A newer Rust compiler must be used on Raspberry Pi.
License
=======
Copyright (c) 2020 Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
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