Based on our record, CrystalDiskInfo seems to be a lot more popular than Balena Etcher. While we know about 418 links to CrystalDiskInfo, we've tracked only 15 mentions of Balena Etcher. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Consider using BalenaEtcher.app It usually transfers at the maximum data rate possible and includes checks so you don't accidentally overwrite the wrong disk. Source: about 1 year ago
Tbh if I were you I would just flash the Debian image to a USB with Rufus or BalenaEtcher and boot from the USB. Just make sure to disable secure boot before doing so, otherwise the USB won't boot. Also you should probably uninstall the Debian loader from Windows. Source: almost 2 years ago
You can download the iso and use something like https://balena.io/etcher. Source: almost 2 years ago
The live mode only works with an USB. You can set it up with Balena Etcher (http://balena.io/etcher/). Source: about 2 years ago
Ah on mac, that explains a little bit. So rufus does not exist for mac, but you can use something like balena etcher steps are: 1. Download the iso (keep in downloads folder, not on usb) 2. Open etcher and select the iso and the usb stick (verify it’s the right one) 3. Start etching (will ask for admin password) 4. When it’s finished put usb in your new computer and boot it 5. When the monitor displays a logo... Source: over 2 years ago
>if you get the SMART data with smartmontools/smartctl, you can inspect Percentage Used. CrystalDiskInfo[1] can be used for this purpose over on Windows. Some vendor-provided utilities like Samsung Magician will also provide this data with appropriate drives. [1]: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
Verify that CrystalDiskInfo shows "Health: Good" for drive D. Source: 6 months ago
Plug it directly into sata and see if it's shown in disk manager with the correct capacity. If it is post a screenshot of the smart data from https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ and we can see what the best way to proceed would be . Source: 6 months ago
The disk is likely failing. DO NOT attempt any write operations like assigning a letter or changing file ownership. What you're saying suggests that the filesystem is corrupted, it's just unclear to what extent. It would be helpful if you provided a screenshot from CrystalDiskInfo. Most likely the best course of action is to boot https://www.hddsuperclone.com/hddlivecd and image the drive to a file on a different,... Source: 7 months ago
Minimum write size of a modern Flash chip can be ~100MB(!) according to a comment found in a random orange website[1]. So 5MB write every 10 minutes can be 600MB/hr, which is 4.8TB/8-hr-day, which is 24TB/40-hour-week, which is 3.43 DWPD real time for a 1TB drive, and 2500 TBW in 2 years real time[2]. Official quoted specification for SN850 is 600 TBW of write endurance, likely after derating for obvious warranty... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Rufus - Rufus is a piece of software that allows you to transform a portable drive, like a flash drive or other USB drives, into a bootable drive that can be used for a variety of purposes. Read more about Rufus.
Hard Disk Sentinel - Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures.
YUMI - YUMI (Your USB Multiboot Installer), is a tool that allows you to boot multiple ISO files from one USB drive.
HD Tune - HD Tune Pro is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S. M. A. R.
UNetbootin - UNetbootin is a utility for creating live bootable USB drives. The name of the software is short for Universal Netboot Installer, and its most prevalent use has been to create bootable versions of Linux distributions on a USB drive.
CrystalMark - CrystalMark is a full included benchmark application that can be utilized for surveying the execution and capacities of a PC.