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ncw / stressdisk

stressdisk

Stress test your disks / memory cards / USB sticks before trusting your valuable data to them

2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
432GitHub stars
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What it is

Stress test your disks / memory cards / USB sticks before trusting your valuable data to them

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-04-19 06:30:46 UTC to 2025-09-17 15:17:15 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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gcd(0x2200,0x7800) = 512 So some part of the chain with 512 byte buffer size corrupted the data. It doesn't look like a memory corruption but if this were my computer I'd run the equivalent of memtest86 on it. It looks like a filing system corruption to me. Running `diskutil info` on the main harddisk and the sd card might be interesting to see if the block sizes match. Running a disk tester on the sd card and the main disk might be a good idea too. Here is one I wrote: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk
In Apple Photos app corrupts images
A long time ago I wrote a program for stress testing hard disks. You can download the modern version of it here: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk It got used a lot to soak tests disk for servers that were going into production or being shipped out to far away places. However it quite soon became apparent that a lot of the errors weren't caused by bad disks at all, but rather by bad RAM. It even discovered a set of bad RAM for 200 computers which passed all the manufacturers tests but failed when in use. Moral of the story: if you care about data integrity check your RAM as well as your disks! I run memtest86 then stressdisk on any new systems I'm building. Also, testing RAM is hard! Memtest86 does an excellent job, much better than the manufacturers tests.
In A broken memory module hid in plain sight

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