@MarkyMac The current version of SR was created many years ago and still works very well for both HDD's and SSD's (which didn't even exist at the time). To say it does little is completely erroneous. It's doing a huge amount of critical work on the HDD / SSD behind the scenes. If the HDD / SSD is in good shape, there won't be much to see. That's actually a good thing. But, it still will have forced the drive to look at each sector, do its internal analysis of "health", and update its diagnostic tables and possibly rewrite bad but recoverable sectors. This has therapeutic value and can keep the drive from developing bit rot just by the fact that you run the program periodically. I have no hesitation at all in saying that SR is worth the price. Furthermore, where SR really shines is if the data cannot be quite read. It can often recover enough data from the abyss to get an unreadable drive to read again and allow partial or full data recovery. Even after all these years, this is industry leading technology.
@Steve is an engineer of the highest caliber that values product quality above deadlines and marketing and PR considerations. He's one developer who stays busy, not a team of 20 programmers. Nobody is perfect, but he really does try to get it right. So, before being TOO critical, please try to understand the product and the developer. If you have questions about SR, you can ask here and maybe someone can answer. (We don't work for
@Steve , but are customers and fans in most cases.) If, for some reason, you are dissatisfied with SR, I believe
@Steve has a money back guarantee.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
