With the completion of SR 6.1 and those of your who have been testing for a while, I was hoping to get a couple of questions answered regarding M.2 NVME drives.
I have past experience with SpinRite 6.0 with a previous job, but beeng waiting to pick up my own copy till 6.1 is out due to the "Division Overflow" error that was common on my numerous machines in that version in my experience. I think that part has likely been fixed.
My second question is now dealing with the compatibility of M.2 NVME Drives. I have one in my main older custom-built desktop with a Asus Sabertooth Z170 mark 1 motherboard. I would love to give it a refresh with SR. The other is in a Dell XPS 13 that's older, slower and giving me some trouble that I think is drive (SSD) related.
I know NVME isn't natively supported in 6.1 due to BIOS and Driver restrictions. I'm not anticipating SR 7 to be out likely till these computers have long since been retired. I have spent some time reading through the forums here and there seem to be some hit-and-miss results with people using SR 6.1 on NVME drives but not a clear path on how they are doing that. I'm comfortable with taking the drives out of the systems and putting them in a specific enclosure if that's the best method, but I'm hoping not to have to buy some other machine (Zima board) to do this. I saw there was a way to do it via VirtualBox too but then Steve mentioned it's not a recommended way to run it and there doesn't seem to be many who have tried it here.
Any insights and observations would greatly be appreciated.
I have past experience with SpinRite 6.0 with a previous job, but beeng waiting to pick up my own copy till 6.1 is out due to the "Division Overflow" error that was common on my numerous machines in that version in my experience. I think that part has likely been fixed.
My second question is now dealing with the compatibility of M.2 NVME Drives. I have one in my main older custom-built desktop with a Asus Sabertooth Z170 mark 1 motherboard. I would love to give it a refresh with SR. The other is in a Dell XPS 13 that's older, slower and giving me some trouble that I think is drive (SSD) related.
I know NVME isn't natively supported in 6.1 due to BIOS and Driver restrictions. I'm not anticipating SR 7 to be out likely till these computers have long since been retired. I have spent some time reading through the forums here and there seem to be some hit-and-miss results with people using SR 6.1 on NVME drives but not a clear path on how they are doing that. I'm comfortable with taking the drives out of the systems and putting them in a specific enclosure if that's the best method, but I'm hoping not to have to buy some other machine (Zima board) to do this. I saw there was a way to do it via VirtualBox too but then Steve mentioned it's not a recommended way to run it and there doesn't seem to be many who have tried it here.
Any insights and observations would greatly be appreciated.
