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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.

landroni
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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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Bruno Pereira
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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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Drew Noakes
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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.

Rael Gugelmin Cunha
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cweiske
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There is also f3 (Repository, doc), that specifically aims at detecting fraudulent cards (f3 stands for "fight flash fraud").

It was suggested here first.

MayeulC
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