So, long story short, I was looking for a good checksum tool for verifying folders. I came across this gem of a software, called simply "checksum". But this is probably the best checksum (and extensive too) software I have ever seen. Looks like there are several other goodies too on that site.. Code: http://corz.org/windows/software/checksum/ From the site
Interesting site. Even the homepage is good. How he suggests paying him back for his work is interesting too. http://corz.org/corz/contact.php
When a person or company claims "the best", "the fastest", "the strongest", etc, things start badly ! Corz says “The world's fastest hashing application, just got faster!”. Really ? Okay, let's see that. ** with hash algorithm: MD5 ** RapidCRC-Unicode First execution: 31.64 s second execution : 14.72 s (I suppose internal cache system in the soft) TurboSFV First execution: 33.838s Second execution: 33.400s Third execution (option cache: ON): 6.867s Checksum (Corz) First execution: 1m32s Second execution : 1m31s ** with hash algorithm: BLAKE2 ** RapidCRC-Unicode not available TurboSFV First execution: 33.496s Second execution (option cache: ON): 6.816s Checksum (Corz) First execution: 1m33s Really Corz, the “The world's fastest hashing application”? Just three times slower than “RapidCRC-Unicode” and TurboSFV on my computer. TurboSFV is my choice. Really good. I have already lost data in the past by hard disk corruption. Some things are priceless. Now, it's MultiPar, TurboSFV and Bvckup for my data. Test done with a copy of myDocuments on a test folder, on external drive - WD Black on USB3 : 9948 files (JPG, ZIP, RAR, DOC, etc) - 1386 folders - 2.81 Gbytes Windows 10 x64, Intel i7 Skylake.
Any chance these results could have been influenced by an antivirus engine messing with one and not the other?
I paid for the personal license (EUR 5) in 2016-07-01. I don't think there were any updates since. Wish everybody else had helped too so he could have kept it going further and better.
You're in luck! The archive has got you - https://web.archive.org/web/20181105093955/http://corz.org/windows/software/checksum/ Unfortunately, both betas as well as the 64-bit normal version are from 5 July 2017 (that's the latest snapshot of their download page in the archive) However, the 32-bit normal version's latest snapshot is from 5 November 2018, much newer than the other 3 versions. Ofc, the 32-bit likely won't work on 64-bit windows, but it doesn't hurt to try...