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diskscan
C2013–2018
baruch / diskscan

diskscan

Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors, performs disk diagnostics

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
128GitHub stars
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What it is

Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors, performs disk diagnostics

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-11-05 16:35:24 UTC to 2018-09-09 05:37:40 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Abishek_Muthian·Sep 9, 2018
Tangentially, I'm curious on how OP monitors health of USB drives. Getting SMART data from USB drives has been a pain on linux as the kernel rejects SAT ATA pass-through commands & so doesn't work with smartmontools[1]. I have tested across different USB 3.0 drives such as Seagate Backup Plus, MYDIGITALSSD|OTG, SAMSUNG Portable SSD T5 all of which use 'uas' driver under linux & if used with USB 3.0 hub like Tplink USB 3.0 port hub; it bridges using 'hub/4p' driver. After trying out several other methods in vain, the only tool which I found to be helpful in checking for USB drive health on linux is discscan[2]; which tests for unreadable sectors & latency without using SMART values. [1]: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB [2]: https://github.com/baruch/diskscan
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