Essential System Tools: f3 detect and fix counterfeit flash storage | Linux Today

Essential System Tools: f3 detect and fix counterfeit flash storage

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Feb 9, 2019

f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the media’s capacity and performance. It tests the real size and compares it to what the drive says.

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