Disabling quick-hashes
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:43 pm
Quick-hashes reduce the time necessary to scan when most of the files are not duplicates, since it eliminates the need to calculate a full SHA-256 hash on all files, but quick-hashing increases the amount of time required to scan between two disks when almost all of the files are duplicates. Every file has to be scanned twice, and if the disk is slow, then quick-hashing may double the time necessary to scan the disks if each file must be read twice. Is there any way to disable quick-hashing and immediately start full-hashing?