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SpinRite Product Demo / Video Walkthrough
This easy-to-watch video provides a complete picture of
what SpinRite looks like, how it runs and what it does:
You may download this MP4 video for local playback with this link: "SpinRite Walkthrough Demo"
What SpinRite does
Data Recovery & SSD Performance Recovery
Take a moment to consider this: Whether data is stored magnetically on spinning magnetic discs, or electrostatically in SSDs or other flash media, mass storage devices have no way of determining whether the data that was once written can still be read today unless they are asked to do so.
It is only when a mass storage device is asked to read its data that it's able to discover whether or not that data is readable – and how easily. Until then, it must be taken on faith.
This is the first reason for SpinRite.
SpinRite scans spinning or solid-state mass storage media to verify, restore, repair and improve its current readability. If anything is found to be amiss, SpinRite's legendary data recovery technology gets to work, often pulling unreadable or barely readable data back from the brink. If this seems difficult to believe, how many thousands of testimonials would you care to read from past SpinRite users?
Once the endangered data has been recovered to the best of SpinRite's ability (which far exceeds any other known utility), what it recovered will be rewritten, possibly into a new location on the media for safe keeping and trouble-free reading when it is needed.
Here comes the second reason for SpinRite...
Does your SSD-based system seem to be running slower than it did when it was new? If so, it may not be your imagination.
We've learned that even when solid state mass storage can be read, storage that is only ever read and rarely written, such as most of operating system files, become more difficult and slower to read as time passes. So well before the data becomes unreadable, a machine's performance can be significantly impacted. SpinRite can refresh and restore solid state media to “like new” performance.
Here's one user's “before” and “after” results:
Andy's SSD benchmark BEFORE SpinRite | Andy's SSD benchmark AFTER SpinRite |
As shown above, SpinRite measures any drive's read performance at the front, middle and end of the drive. Here we see that Andy's SSD – even though it is “solid state” and we assume it would not be affected by things that might slow it down – was initially reading at 141.7, 149.3 and 272.8 megabytes per second before running SpinRite at level 3 over the drive. Afterward, as shown by Andy's “after” photo, its original performance has been restored and it's now reading at around 554 megabytes per second everywhere.
SpinRite should be run annually on all SSDs to keep them refreshed, performing at optimal speed, and for long-term reliability.
Check out SpinRite's User Feedback and Testimonials page for more examples of its benefits for solid state storage.
The view from Windows
SpinRite 6.1 is a 250KB program that runs under Windows and FreeDOS. SpinRite is run under Windows to create bootable media — normally a bootable USB “thumb drive”:The bootable media created by SpinRite under Windows includes FreeDOS and is pre-configured to run SpinRite when it is booted on any PC-compatible (Intel/AMD) machine which can boot from USB, CD or diskette (and even on many Intel-based Apple Macs). Since SpinRite 6.1 is a DOS application, which requires BIOS-compatible firmware to boot, please see the Will it run on your machine? page to answer that question. Since SpinRite 7 will also run on UEFI machines, you may sign-up to receive eMail news of future SpinRite releases.
Three independent reviews
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