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SpinRite tests the data surfaces of writeable magnetic disks, including IDE, SATA, and floppy disks, plus SSD Solid State Drives. It analyzes their contents and can refresh the magnetic disk surfaces or flash memory storage to allow them to operate more reliably.
Name Operating system License User interface Fixed drives USB, eSATA and removable drives RAID support [a] Shows S.M.A.R.T. attributes Hard drive self-testing Notification
A solid-state drive (SSD) provides secondary storage for relatively complex systems including personal computers, embedded systems, portable devices, large servers and network-attached storage (NAS). To satisfy such a wide range of uses, SSDs are produced with various features, capacities, interfaces and physical sizes and layouts.
That said, the price of high-capacity drives has fallen rapidly, and this is indeed an effect of density. The highest capacity drives use more platters, essentially individual hard drives within the case. As the density increases, the number of platters can be reduced, leading to lower costs. Hard drives are often measured in terms of cost per bit.
SpinRite, a hard disk scanning and data recovery utility first released in 1988. [30] As of January 2019 the current version was 6.0, [31] which was first released in 2004. [32] SpinRite is a commercial product, costing US$89 as of July 2021. [31] Gibson's work on SpinRite has led to him being considered an expert on hard drive failure. [33]
Later 1.8-inch drives were updated with a micro-SATA connector and up to 320GB of storage (Toshiba MK3233GSG). The 1.8-inch form factor was eventually phased out as SSDs became cheaper and more compact. [38] There was an attempt to standardize this format as SFF-8123, but it was cancelled in 2005. [39]