Very impressed with Spinrite 6.1, and a sincere Thank You to Steve

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TonyG

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I simply wanted to post how impressed I've been with SpinRite 6.1.

For many years I've hand my OS and (mostly) static volumes on an SSD. The thinking was if a volume largely does not get written to I'd not wear out the SSD and would be able to keep it working for an extended period. My mostly volatile volumes are on 'flying rust' storage. I became aware of the discussions on how SSDs will become slower over time due to the weakening cells, but usually I didn't pay it much concern. Finally, I've purchased SpinRight and ran a Level 3 on my OS SSD.

At first the scan was 'ripping' quite fast, then towards the halfway point is was a though it hit a wall. I had no idea how hard my SSD was working to read my Volumes. The benchmarks (below) where shocking. I had thought that the SSD was worn out but its as if its a new drive again. Many thanks to Steve and the people in this forum. It went from (end of drive rate) 13.318 MB/s to 543.752 MB/s

As an aside, I really owe every OS developer a sincere apology. For years I've been blaming OS 'Cruft' for the slowing of my systems, now I'm thinking the tired SSD was a major part of the problem. Now I need to get my hands on my wife's laptop to 'restore' it as well.....

Code:
  |==========================================================================|
  |           Drive's measured performance before running SpinRite           |
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                    smart polling delay:   8.961 msec                     |
  |                    random sectors time:   0.288 msec                     |
  |                    front of drive rate: 481.882 MB/s                     |
  |                    midpoint drive rate: 538.593 MB/s                     |
  |                      end of drive rate:  13.318 MB/s                     |
  |==========================================================================|
  |           Drive's measured performance after running SpinRite            |
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                    smart polling delay:   8.950 msec                     |
  |                    random sectors time:   0.131 msec                     |
  |                    front of drive rate: 558.670 MB/s                     |
  |                    midpoint drive rate: 558.403 MB/s                     |
  |                      end of drive rate: 543.752 MB/s                     |
  |==========================================================================|
 
Very sorry that I did not include this to begin with:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Green
Device Model: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0
Serial Number: WD-WCAWZ0677307
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 205dabe28
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Jan 22 09:44:21 2025 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


The above was in error (my bad). I looked at the wrong log file. Here is the SSD that I was referring to:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: WD Blue / Red / Green SSDs
Device Model: WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50
Serial Number: 192242801684
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 8b8b21222
Firmware Version: 401000WD
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Jan 27 11:22:28 2025 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
 
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WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 seems to be a HDD, not an SSD.
Did you test two drives and mix the SpinRite Logs?
 
Very good catch on your part. I did go to the wrong log file in SRLOGS. My Bad. Thanks for catching that. I've corrected it....