1 Feb
2023
1 Feb
'23
2:19 a.m.
It depends on the drive's firmware. Some do
background scans of blocks while idle. Others do not. Since you >have no way of knowing
which is which (or even when the backgroundscan is done), the safest way to force a
>scan is to read the whole drive... any blocks whose raw error count is too high will
be rewritten to fresh >blocks. If it's a good SSD you'll likely not notice this
happening. If it's a crappy thumb drive... you may >be better off copying to some
other media..
Hmmm.. I wonder if there is a program akin to Spinrite that will do that on SSDs (i.e.
reread and rewrite every byte). I know Steve Gibson is working on a new version of
Spinrite that will work with SSDs so that could be the solution when it comes out...
-Ali