#spinrite — Public Fediverse posts
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The #Spinrite v6.1 L3 maintenance run took around 2h45m, getting faster as it proceeded, so the initial estimate of over 5h crumbled.
Benchmarking the front part of the #SSD drive now shows it is much faster, jumping from about 100MB/s to a little over 500MB/s.
My laptop is back up and running again, and does seem to be performing a lot better now!
Very pleased with the result ✔️
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Over the past few weeks I've been noticing performance declining on my laptop. It is certainly not the #SSD speed demon it used to be!
I decided to let #Spinrite v6.1 take a look at the SSD and it confirmed a significant slow down at the front of the drive. It had an average performance that was about 40% of that of the rest of the drive.
Currently running a Spinrite level 3 read & re-write job, and it is crawling just to get to the 20% mark 😲
Looks like this maintenance really is needed!
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Looks like Spinrite v6.1 has now been officially released by Steve at GRC.
I have a v6.0 license, purchased over 10yrs ago, and I received my free v6.1 upgrade offer yesterday!
Bigger drives, better performance, faster access, more hardware support.
Apparently it is even possible to improve SSD performance as it degrades over time.
Support for floppy drives has been dropped, but that is mitigated by the free access to v5.0 that you get.
Getting my copy now...
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Looks like Spinrite v6.1 has now been officially released by Steve at GRC.
I have a v6.0 license, purchased over 10yrs ago, and I received my free v6.1 upgrade offer yesterday!
Bigger drives, better performance, faster access, more hardware support.
Apparently it is even possible to improve SSD performance as it degrades over time.
Support for floppy drives has been dropped, but that is mitigated by the free access to v5.0 that you get.
Getting my copy now...
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Looks like Spinrite v6.1 has now been officially released by Steve at GRC.
I have a v6.0 license, purchased over 10yrs ago, and I received my free v6.1 upgrade offer yesterday!
Bigger drives, better performance, faster access, more hardware support.
Apparently it is even possible to improve SSD performance as it degrades over time.
Support for floppy drives has been dropped, but that is mitigated by the free access to v5.0 that you get.
Getting my copy now...
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Looks like Spinrite v6.1 has now been officially released by Steve at GRC.
I have a v6.0 license, purchased over 10yrs ago, and I received my free v6.1 upgrade offer yesterday!
Bigger drives, better performance, faster access, more hardware support.
Apparently it is even possible to improve SSD performance as it degrades over time.
Support for floppy drives has been dropped, but that is mitigated by the free access to v5.0 that you get.
Getting my copy now...
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Looks like Spinrite v6.1 has now been officially released by Steve at GRC.
I have a v6.0 license, purchased over 10yrs ago, and I received my free v6.1 upgrade offer yesterday!
Bigger drives, better performance, faster access, more hardware support.
Apparently it is even possible to improve SSD performance as it degrades over time.
Support for floppy drives has been dropped, but that is mitigated by the free access to v5.0 that you get.
Getting my copy now...
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Am I running all my IDE hard drives through spinrite 6.1 while I have a machine with IDE out on the table (A nicely equipped PIV Compaq).
Yes, yes I am.
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@TWSheppard Do you have access to a PC? (or - if you get the beta 6.1 version, a intel mac) try #SpinRite! It's amazing!
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Recently pulled this dead drive from my firewall. It's totally unresponsive, doesn't even spin up.
You know the wisdom: never use the first release of a product? Well look at the Drive Revision!
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@cirriustech don't forget that #SpinRite, https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm , is still alive and well.
#WinDirStat can also be hypnotic, but since it doesn't take over your machine and force you to wait, it's just not the same experience.
Cc: @leo
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@cirriustech don't forget that #SpinRite, https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm , is still alive and well.
#WinDirStat can also be hypnotic, but since it doesn't take over your machine and force you to wait, it's just not the same experience.
Cc: @leo
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@cirriustech don't forget that #SpinRite, https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm , is still alive and well.
#WinDirStat can also be hypnotic, but since it doesn't take over your machine and force you to wait, it's just not the same experience.
Cc: @leo
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@cirriustech don't forget that #SpinRite, https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm , is still alive and well.
#WinDirStat can also be hypnotic, but since it doesn't take over your machine and force you to wait, it's just not the same experience.
Cc: @leo
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@cirriustech don't forget that #SpinRite, https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm , is still alive and well.
#WinDirStat can also be hypnotic, but since it doesn't take over your machine and force you to wait, it's just not the same experience.
Cc: @leo
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rebooted #Gentoo because I decided to recompile the entire system after a major gcc update. Don't have to do that of course, but sort of nostalgic for the old days when we thought it was necessary - or maybe it actually was? I never figured that out.
emerge --empty-tree [at]world took like a day and a half, but finished without any errors. That was a surprise.
Uptime was only about 10 1/2 days. fsck'ed the disks - no problem (but can't wait to have #SpinRite 6.1 check them).
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After an update, when the output of #NeedReboot includes all the browsers, the sound system, X, the window manager, all the daemons, and even emacs, that is a good time to reboot into #SystemRescue and fsck the disks. (Related: can't wait for #SpinRite 6.1)
#PreviousUpTime: 17 days, 16 hours
#CurrentUpTime: 12 minutes.
