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only was to emphasize the huge signal / noise ratio: 5102 MB recovered versus ~40214 GB written to the disk.

grenier/testdisk Copr. If I remember correctly it's mentioned somewhere here.

It's a Crucial CT2000MX500SSD1 SSD. smartctl says that Total_LBAs_Written is 100163814094 (from which about 1300 GB have been used to install Fedora and clone the disks to recover).

If you're thinking of hidden write amplification, the /sys/block/sda/stat file confirms that 40214 GB have been ...

I'm using testdisk-7.1-8.fc36.x86_64

If I remember correctly last time I selected only Zip, Office, PDF and MS Access Database because I'm interested only in these kind of files and also to be faster.

P.S. 46880 GB written so far.

I'm using PhotoRec to recover the files from three partitions having 120, 300 and 500 GB, so a total of 920 GB.
The directory where there files are stored has only 60 GB, but imagine my reaction when I discovered that PhotoRec wrote 20000 GB on the SSD.

To sum it up:

original: 920 GB
recovered ...