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Asked: 2011-10-21 12:29:27 +0800 CST

Is there an SD Card diagnostic utility?

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Are there any SD Card diagnostic utility programs out there for Ubuntu? I would like to run tests on my SD card to check capacity, write speed etc. I have one for windows but I am looking for a Linux flavor and hope to find some source code.

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4 Answers

  1. Look for Disk Utility on you dash (as an option press Alt+F2 and type palimpsest)

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    Click on the disk you want information from, to test it click on Benchmark

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    To start benchmark, select Read only or Read/Write benchmark

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  2. For Ubuntu 13.04 and later...

    From the dash

    Find <code>disks</code> in the launcher

    From the command line

    gnome-disks

    Usage

    Select the disk you wish to test. enter image description here Find the menu in the top right and select Benchmark...

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    A window will appear. Click Start Benchmark... to see: enter image description here

    I left the defaults and clicked Start Benchmarking.... It will run for a while, building the chart over time. enter image description here You can see that my new SD card's read rate is around 7 MB/s, while the write rate is only slightly over 2 MB/s.

    The model shown here is a SanDisk Ultra SDXC with an advertised speed of up to 30 MB/s. As you can see, the transfer rate is not as advertised.

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  3. Reported Capacity

    $ df -h /media/sdcard

    Real capacity and write speed

    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/sdcard/testfile bs=10M
1xx+0 records in 1xx+0 records out 9xx bytes (9.4 GiB) copied, 34.xx seconds, 271 MB/s

    dd will fill up all the space. Remove the testfile afterwards.

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  4. There is also f3 (Repository, doc), that specifically aims at detecting fraudulent cards.

    It was suggested here first.

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