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…
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App to Measure Disk Read Write Speeds on macOS
Unlike spinning hard drives of old, SSDs, especially M.2 NVMe, have few more criteria to test throwing out the box. Firstly, the drive may not be capable to perform as the spec says. Secondly, your computer — or any device that will connect to the drive — may have unforeseen bottleneck somewhere. At any rate, you do need a testing software to get started.