: It can identify the true physical capacity of the NAND flash and strip away "fake" storage reporting often found in fraudulent drives.
Many modern flash drives use pSLC caching. The v1052 tool allows you to force the FC1178 into a low-density, high-reliability mode (e.g., converting a 64GB TLC drive into a 21GB pSLC drive). Older versions lack these advanced timing parameters. firstchip fc1178 fc1179 mptools v1052 exclusive