Re: Unidentified subject!

[Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>]

Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> writes:

> On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:02:36 -0500
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> > Test it with Validrive.
>> > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm  
>> 
>> Looks like proprietary software for Windows.
>
> badblocks, available in a Debian repo near you, might be a suitable
> replacement.

I am not sure badblocks would do the same thing.

"The drive appears to be the 1 or 2 terabyte drive you purchased. You
plug it into your computer and everything looks fine. You can even copy
files to the drive; as many as you want. And when you look at the
drive's contents the files are there. But what's insidious is that the
files' contents may have never been stored.  "

So you need to store a lot of data and then verify that it has written
with 'diff'.