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App to Test Drive Capacity Legitimacy on Windows

Though I tried to find a similar app for macOS and Linux, it wasn’t such a big surprise apps to test legitimacy of drive capacity is mostly reserved for Windows. For context, the idea behind the test is that there are customized illegitimate firmwares installed on drives to trick OS, thereby users, into thinking the drive is actually bigger than it is. The actual scheme goes like this: one. a user buys a cheap SSD (e.g. only $10 for 10TB), two. OS reports back the 10TB, three. but the files are getting corrupted after a while, four. closer inspection reveals…