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    To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.

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MichaelLD

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Just in case someone is interested:

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Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 81  512GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB     546.1   546.3   540.2   546.5   546.3
 82  2.0TB Hitachi HUA723020ALA641       147.5   137.0   119.8    98.6    73.0
 83  2.0TB Hitachi HUA723020ALA641       144.7   136.0   118.9    98.4    70.8
 84  2.0TB Hitachi HUA723020ALA641       153.3   142.3   126.1   103.2    75.3
 85  2.0TB Hitachi HUA723020ALA641       154.7   145.9   129.8   107.1    77.8
 86  2.0TB Hitachi HUA723020ALA641       140.8   131.7   117.5    98.9    71.1

It was a bit fiddly getting the system to recognize the USB stick for boot.
Otherwise, READSPEED ran with no problems. The HGST drives were read in a matter of seconds.
Spinrite 6.0 took over 50 hours to read and verify the same disks (level 4) on a different MB.
I never could get Spinrite properly to run on this system. DOS and Spinrite would load from a CD, but would never discover any of the drives.
I Can't wait for 6.1

MB has 32GB of ECC memory
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Hi, thanks for posting your results! Interesting to have the CPU and mainboard info too! :)

Also interesting to see several identical drives' results together!

Those figures of 546 MB/s are the fastest I think I've seen!

I'm assuming that a lot of modern SSDs are maxxing out the SATA III bus, so that the top speeds that we're seeing are the limits of the SATA link. My Gigabyte GA-H87-D3H motherboard (with i7 4770S) caps out at 543.0 MB/s with my Samsung 860 Pro 512GB SSD, at least that's what I assume is happening.

Your system seems to have a slight edge! :)
 
MichaelLD said:
I never could get Spinrite properly to run on this system. DOS and Spinrite would load from a CD, but would never discover any of the drives.
I Can't wait for 6.1
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It sounds like your system is AHCI. In which case, SpinRite 6.0 would not see any drives. ReadSpeed has no problem with AHCI, nor will SpinRite 6.1.
 
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