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# Software Benchmark

2026-11-05

10,000+ Photos on Your Hard Drive and Half Are Duplicates or Burst Shots? This Free Open-Source Rust Tool Reclaimed 76GB in 2 Minutes

Storage Deduplication Lab Benchmark. After years of backing up phones and copying folders ('Phone Backup 2022', 'New Folder (2)'), most family and office hard drives are 40% filled with exact duplicate videos, renamed copies, and near-identical burst photos. We tested Czkawka (an 18k-star open-source Rust deduplicator using BLAKE3 hashing and perceptual pHash visual matching) on a real 184.2 GB (42,600-file) drive, safely reclaiming 76.4 GB in under 2 minutes with zero data loss.

2026-11-05

Windows File Explorer Search Spinning the Green Bar for 3 Minutes? This 1.8MB Free Tool Finds Any File Across 800,000 Files in 0.002 Seconds

PC Productivity Lab Benchmark. Every Windows user knows the agony of typing a filename into File Explorer's top-right search box, watching the green progress bar crawl for 3 minutes, and still getting 'No items match your search.' We benchmarked Voidtools Everything (a 1.8MB free utility that reads the NTFS Master File Table $MFT directly, just like WizTree) across an 824,500-file drive: initial indexing takes 0.85 seconds, and every search completes in 0.002 seconds as you type.