Apps similar to FakeFlashTest include H2testw, which is free. Other options are ValiDrive, CapacityTester, MediaTester and USB Flash Drive Tester. In total there are seven Benchmark Tools like FakeFlashTest for Windows and Linux.
Data integrity test for USB sticks and other media
An advantage over other tools is, that it does not need administrative rights to access the device - but it should not be NTFS formatted, as it does not allow to test everything.
You can FAT32 format hard drive partitions large.
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Quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for fraudulent deliberately missing storage.
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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.
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.
Flash card/drive tester allows testing of any removable media including SD, MMC, CF, USB flash pen drives for bad or unstable sectors. Especially useful for testing for fake sizes often seen on low quality USB pen drives.
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Flash Memory Toolkit is a small package which has some very useful options like file recovery, benchmark and error scanning.
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A counterfeit memory card is a small, genuine card whose controller chip has been programmed to report a much bigger size. Anything written past its real capacity either wraps back over earlier data or simply vanishes, which is why photos and videos silently corrupt weeks after...
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