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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
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[–] StupendousMan@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Steve Gibson recently created a small utility to test USB drives to see if they work and actually give you the store space they claim.

https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Anything similar for Linux?

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

I'd like to know as well, hopefully, I'll get a notification for leaving this comment 😝

[–] Duallight 2 points 8 months ago

There's F3. I've never used it but it looks decent. https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/f3-usb-capacity-fake-usb-test-linux

[–] dXq9dwg4zt@lemmings.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, there is one called F3 (Fight Flash Fraud).

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

Man, I haven't visited GRC in forever! Glad to see they're still killing it...