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• SpinRite 6.1 offers us help for solid-state drives

  Posted on December 16, 2024 at 02:43 CST by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums

  BEN’S WORKSHOP

  

  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).

  Ben's Workshop ClearDiskInfo, Newsletters, Performance, performance tuning, SMART, SpinRite, SpinRite 6.1, SSDs

• Optane disappointment leads to a ‘Plan B’

  Posted on June 24, 2019 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  I was in a bit of a pickle: The performance of my brand-new PC was awful — it simply couldn’t handle my peak workloads!

  Worse, it was my own fault: I’d spec’d the wrong drive setup for my particular computing needs!

  Here’s how I got back on track with a hardware/software combination that’s blazingly quick on both hard-drive reads and writes!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.23.0 (2019-06-24).

  Buying New Hardware, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Buying a PC, Optane, performance tuning, Windows 10