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Softpedia Editor's Review for Flash Memory Toolkit
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A collection of utilities for flash memory devices
Written by Bogdan Popa on December 13th, 2011
Flash Memory Toolkit is a collection of tools designed not only to provide valuable information regarding your USB flash drives, but also to offer a bunch of handy utilities such as file backup and recovery.
The application is quite user friendly and although by definition it's not addressed to beginners, it can serve virtually all types of users. Beginners can always have a look in the help manual that's provided as a PDF file, but includes tons of information regarding the app.
Flash Memory Toolkit thus relies on a straightforward interface, with features listed on the left side.
You can thus get info on the USB removable drive, scan for errors, permanently remove some files, recover data, backup and restore content and perform two types of benchmarks, low-level and file.
The info screen is the one where you will see details such as capacity, used and free space, but also USB configuration.
While most of the tools come with intuitive names, the ones that can really put your USB device up to test are the two benchmarks. The user thus has the possibility to find average, minimum and maximum read and write speeds, along with some useful graphs to see the way your flash drives performed during the test.
The backup is saved with the FMT format but it isn't protected in any way, so anybody using Flash Memory Toolkit could restore the content using your very own backup file.
On the good side, it's pretty clear that we have to mention the bundle of tools this utility has to offer, managing to tackle several important issues for all USB flash drives owners.
Unfortunately, there are some downsides too, and the first one that pops in our minds is the price which in some cases might be unacceptable for a handful of users.
But all in all, Flash Memory Toolkit is a very useful software solution that has the power to serve its purpose in an impressive way, and with a few improvements here and there it could easily become a top product.
 Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Flash Memory Toolkit
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Flash Memory Toolkit description
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Here are some key features of "Flash Memory Toolkit":
Info:
· The Info function shows various interesting information such as detailed device capacity, file system, operating system and USB configuration.
Error Scan:
· A fast and reliable function to check the integrity of the device by performing a read or write surface scan.
Eraser:
· Securely erasing the memory card or USB stick ensures that no sensitive data can be recovered.
File recovery:
· Quickly and effectively recover files which were lost after a format, hardware failure or an accidental deletion. The most common file types are supported.
Backup:
· Make a bit-by-bit identical copy of your memory card or USB stick and store it on a hard drive or other storage medium.
Low-level benchmark:
· Measure the raw performance of your device.
File benchmark:
· Measure the real-world performance by checking how long it takes to read and write files with different lengths.
Requirements:
· 10 MB of free disk space
· Flash memory card or USB stick
Limitations:
· Nag screen
· Some functions are disabled What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Low-level benchmark: fixed scale bug
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