The dd command has been the king of synthetic files for 40 years.
# On Linux (faster than MD5) time sha256sum 50GB_test.file Get-FileHash D:\50GB_test.file -Algorithm SHA256 50 gb test file
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# Split 50GB into 500MB chunks (100 files total) split -b 500M 50GB_test.file "chunk_" # Reassemble on the other side cat chunk_* > restored_50GB_test.file Computing an MD5 hash on a 50GB file takes minutes and maxes out your CPU.
