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GRC SpinRite
>>> 2024-05-25 grc spinrite (PDF) I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school.
This type of bad-block-detecting rewrite pass is probably only useful in pathological cases on older devices, but it's also the only real claim of the vast majority of modern "hard drive repair" software. These segments, and their mentions of how SpinRite is a very powerful tool that one shouldn't run on SSDs too often, absolutely reek of the promotional techniques behind Orgone accumulators, Hulda Clark's "Zapper," and color therapy. [2] This kind of visible failure seems uncommon with SSDs, likely because SSD controllers tend to read out the flash in a critical, suspicious way and take preemptive action when the physical state is less than perfectly clear cut.
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