• SpinRite 6.1 offers us help for solid-state drives

    BEN’S WORKSHOP

    Ben Myers

    By Ben Myers

    The latest version of SpinRite, long regarded as the go-to software to recover data from corrupted hard drives, adds testing and tuning of solid-state drives to hard drive rescue.

    Gibson Research’s famous SpinRite 6.0, circa 2004, recovers data from defective hard drives, repeatedly reading sectors to determine the original uncorrupted data with good statistical odds of success. SpinRite cannot possibly work on drives with failed circuit boards or drives that do not spin up.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.51.0, 2024-12-16).