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xDefrag is a small tool to defragment fragmented files on their hard drive for faster file access through Windows. You can store multiple directories, folders for faster access, to quickly defragment them later. Or select an entire drive. An integration in Windows Explorer has also been embedded. Requirements: Windows 7 or later At least 50 MB of free disk space 2 GB - Memory Net - Framework 4.0 or higher

USB resetting is the closest equivalent to physically unplugging and re-plugging a USB device. you might ask , How is that useful ? well the use cases will be different from user to another. In my case, it helps with accessing my slightly damaged old USB external hard drive after a mount in unix-like OSes without any i/o issues. Another one is, loop resetting my USB headset solves some weird glitching sound i constantly have while using them. Those are my special use cases. There most be more, that it can help with.

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot image that securely wipes hard disk drives (HDDs). DBAN is appropriate for personal use, bulk data destruction, or emergency data destruction for HDDs, but is not recommended for solid-state drives (SSDs), sanitization that requires auditable compliance documentation, or technical support.

...Each scheduler determines when the data sources must be checked for synchronization. Each data storage source represents a hierarchical (file system ...) or other type of data storage medium. These include hard drive, removable media, sequential devices, online storage services. Perhaps the most distinguishing quality of this utility is POP3 and IMAP storage providers which enable storage of files in a mail server, such as gmail or yahoo, in so much the same way as an online storage service (google drive, drop box ...). Storage providers could be configured for encrypted storage and specification as to what part of the underlying medium the provider represents. ...

Example code for fat16, iso9660 and ext2, its characteristic is simple, we only focus on how the file system data is maintained on hard drive.

SmartDupe is bash script which replaces file Duplicates in a given path by Hard links to free space on your Hard Drive.

Rugg is a hard drive and filesystem harness tool that allows you to test and benchmark drives and filesystems, by writing simple to complex scenarios that can mimic the behaviour of real-world applications.

CMage provides the ability to create an image of a filesystem on an IDE/SATA device and apply the image to a second hard drive of either IDE or SATA with a smaller, equal, or larger device size. CMage is run from a linux based liveCD on the terminal.