This morning I watched the Dave's Garage episode on Spinrite 6.1 - what it is, how it works, what it can do for magnetic drives and SSDs. It really piqued my interest about the drives in my Windows 10 laptop and their state. Continuing to avoid work I spent time looking over the GCR site, watched Steve's Spinrite 6.1 demo video, eventually bought Spinrite 6.1, and got it booted up.
I ran a full Level 2 scan of both drives in my system. Not much happened for the primary boot drive but I use it as little as possible. The second drive though saw a big jump in front of drive performance!
Improved 169.2%!
So I figured I might as well run it again at Level 3 over the first 33% of the drive and damn if it didn't bring the drive back to almost full performance!
A total improvement of 215%!? I mean, I'm sold!
I'm looking forward to running this against all my drives, including some iffy magnetic drives that seem to have failed.
Awesome work, Steve! Thanks!
I ran a full Level 2 scan of both drives in my system. Not much happened for the primary boot drive but I use it as little as possible. The second drive though saw a big jump in front of drive performance!
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| SpinRite 6.1, beginning level 2 operation at 2:45 pm on May 13th, 2025. |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| From 0.0000% sect: 0 To 100.0000% sect: 1,953,525,167 |
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| Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| access mode: AHCI serial number: S21CNXAG000000F |
| pci bus addr: 0:23:0 firmware rev: EMT02B6Q |
| adapter vendor: Intel Corporation rotation rate: not specified |
| vendor-device: 8086-A103 ata/atapi spec: ATA-8 |
| bios drive: 82h drv technology: supports trimming |
| attached port: 3 lba in use: yes, 48-bit LBA |
| port speed: SATA 3 at 6.0Gb/s |
| max driv speed: SATA 3 at 6.0Gb/s multi-word dma: -/2 (unknown md) |
| ultradma modes: 5/6 (100.0 MB/s) |
| sector count: 1,953,525,168 available pio: 4/4 (16.67 MB/s) |
| byte count: 1,000,204,886,016 |
| features: SMART SECURE POWR |
| transfers: 32,768 sector long ops: no : WCACH LOOKAHD HPA |
| AHCI speed: 569,970,433 byte/s feature detail: 746B7D01 7469BC01 |
|==========================================================================|
| Drive's measured performance before running SpinRite |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| smart polling delay: 4.904 msec |
| random sectors time: 0.079 msec |
| front of drive rate: 260.030 MB/s |
| midpoint drive rate: 569.970 MB/s |
| end of drive rate: 569.994 MB/s |
|==========================================================================|
| Drive's measured performance after running SpinRite |
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| smart polling delay: 4.952 msec |
| random sectors time: 0.075 msec |
| front of drive rate: 439.975 MB/s |
| midpoint drive rate: 569.982 MB/s |
| end of drive rate: 570.010 MB/s |
|==========================================================================|
|Improved 169.2%!
So I figured I might as well run it again at Level 3 over the first 33% of the drive and damn if it didn't bring the drive back to almost full performance!
Code:
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| Drive's measured performance after running SpinRite |
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| smart polling delay: 4.921 msec |
| random sectors time: 0.073 msec |
| front of drive rate: 559.367 MB/s |
| midpoint drive rate: 570.005 MB/s |
| end of drive rate: 570.017 MB/s |
|==========================================================================|A total improvement of 215%!? I mean, I'm sold!
I'm looking forward to running this against all my drives, including some iffy magnetic drives that seem to have failed.
Awesome work, Steve! Thanks!
