F3 is an open source command-line tool that assesses the real capacity of USB sticks and other media. An advantage over other tools is, that it does not need administrative rights to access the device.


The best open source alternative to H2testw is F3. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to H2testw and five of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to H2testw are MediaTester, CapacityTester, Quick Disk Test and File Read Test.
F3 is an open source command-line tool that assesses the real capacity of USB sticks and other media. An advantage over other tools is, that it does not need administrative rights to access the device.


MediaTester can test any media (SD, microSD, USB thumbdrive, etc) and verify it stores the expected number of bytes. The testing method is similar to h2testw but MediaTester can detect fake or defective media much faster by performing quick reads as data is written.

Tool to test a USB drive or memory card to find out if it's a fake. The tool performs a simple test to determine if the full capacity is usable or not. All it does is fill the volume with test data and verify if the data on the volume is correct.


Quick Disk Test fills a disk with test data and verifies that it can be read back without errors.


Reads disk files or directories and stops on the first read error.
There are two versions: a command-line perl script and a Java GUI.




it's open source and cross-platform