>I'd suggest that before you slag programs, you not rely on old, outdated, >biased information.
Spinrite 6 is a twelve year program that seemed cool back in the day, but I would never recommend it to anyone now. Repairing computers for a living, Im always on the lookout for useful tools. I don’t find Spinrite useful. I once watched spinrite work on a failing HDD for a day and a half, and did nothing more than place additional wear on the drive. Does that make me biased? Speaking of outdated... In 2013 Steve Gibson said he would finally update it, but nothing so far? Here's an interesting quote: Gibson said that he could "see absolutely no possible benefit to running SpinRite on a solid-state drive" and later "SpinRite is all about mechanics and magnetics, neither of which exist, by design, in an SSD" And for your information, SMART records events. Some of those events will happen under load, since that’s the nature of mechanical drives. However, a bad sector is a bad sector and load or no, that does not change. Once they start to fail you replace the HDD, not try to repair it. Modern drives automatically reallocate sectors, meaning bad sectors are replaced with spares. Not even spinrite can recover lost data from these spare sectors that have never been used before. As for me, these days I install only SSDs in desktop systems that run 24/7, and also use them as boot drives for servers. Over the years I have had only one SSD fail, and it did show pending sectors in SMART. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
