Steve Gibson (GRC.com) has just released a new utility called VALIDRIVE to ID Fake drives. he says it will Quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for fraudulent deliberately missing storage. https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
We all need this utility so many fakes out there.
As always with Steve’s utilities its well thought out and does what it says. As a plus not only doers it validate a USB drive but it tests the drives speed and reliability.
Add this one to your tools.
My first test of a 12 year old imation atom USB drive provided this useful report.
Report #1
| test date and time | 12/10/2023 at 11:17 AM |
| declared drive size | 4,008,706,048 (4.01GB) |
| validated drive size | 4,008,706,048 (4.01GB) |
| highest valid region | 4,008,706,048 (4.01GB) |
| hub or drive vendor | imation |
| hub or drive product | atom |
| serial number | 079a0803380b2a96 |
Performance details
| read | write | |
| samples | 1,152 | 1,152 |
| minimum | 230,053 | 598,995 |
| maximum | 873,225 | 1,061,347 |
| average | 247,890 | 774,064 |
| median | 241,402 | 766,097 |
| std dev | 28,021 | 61,680 |
| variance | 0.113 | 0.080 |
| total time | 285,569,623 | 891,721,956 |
| percent | 24.26% | 75.74% |
time measurements in microseconds