1PW Posted 17 hours ago ID:1663701 Share Posted 17 hours ago Many have their favorite tools for HDD/SSD maintenance. If you have a license for Steve Gibson's SpinRite 6.0, you have a free entitlement to version 6.1 coming. Quote Take a moment to consider this: Whether data is stored magnetically on spinning magnetic discs, or electrostatic charges in SSDs and other flash media, mass storage devices have no way of determining how well 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 quickly & easily. Until then, it must be taken on faith. More… 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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