4 Sep
2012
4 Sep
'12
8:45 p.m.
spinrite for everything up to current technology -1 or -2
for anything newer use HDD Regenerator
and I also recommend enabling SMART which is built into the drive,and will tell you in
advance if the drive is starting to go
Subject: Re: Hard-drive diagnostic program
From: fraveydank at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:29:28 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
Will someone name a program that will do
"checkup" on a hard drive, that
could warn of an impending failure?
Well, there's Spin Rite, but I hear it is becoming increasingly less
relevant with newer disks. It also doesn't work with AHCI. If you are
using this for vintage IDE disks, neither of the above disclaimers should
matter.
- Dave