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SpinRite was originally written as a hard drive interleave tool. [3] At the time SpinRite was designed, hard drives often had a defect list printed on the nameplate, listing known bad sectors discovered at the factory. In changing the drive's interleave, SpinRite needed to be able to remap these physical defects into different logical sectors.
This is an incomplete list of software that reads S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data from hard drives. Name Operating system
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]
In September 2012, Blancco of Finland announced its acquisition of DBAN. [5]The most recent version of DBAN, 2.3.0, was released on 4 June 2015. [6] Since that time, DBAN development has ended and the DBAN official website is now used by Blancco to market their Blancco Drive Eraser instead.
Think USB. SpinRite doesn't handle all the latest interface standards or capacities. Therefore it is outmoded and outdated. One also has to ask the question does SpinRite work with the disk's firmware or against it? Has Spinrite been updated to be aware of all firmware's behaviors? I think not.
In computer data storage, Smart Response Technology (SRT, also called SSD Caching before it was launched) is a proprietary caching mechanism introduced in 2011 by Intel for their Z68 chipset (for the Sandy Bridge–series processors), which allows a SATA solid-state drive (SSD) to function as cache for a (conventional, magnetic) hard disk drive (HDD).
Disk Cloning Software Disk cloning capabilities of various software. Name Operating system User Interface Cloning features Operation model License; Windows Linux MacOS Live OS CLI GUI Sector by sector [a] File based [b] Hot transfer [c] Standalone Client–server; Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office [1] [d] Yes No Yes: Yes (64 MB) No Yes Yes
Norton Utilities at a retail store. Norton Utilities is a utility software suite designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain a computer. The latest version of the original series of Norton Utilities is Norton Utilities 16 for Windows XP/Vista/7/8, released 26 October 2012.