Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
January 27th, 2012, 8:48
I have several hard drives a month that pass through my shop. I know from experience that one of the signs they are starting to fail is a "massive" slow down. Other then that, the drives appear healthy and sometimes they seem to just pep up. Is there a program that can diagnose the health of a clean drive with no errors on the platter? I have tried Spin Rite and it doesn't seem to work so far.
January 27th, 2012, 9:44
I like HDD Sentinel
http://www.hdsentinel.com/Also like that is tells you how many platters & heads are in the drive.
Loki
January 28th, 2012, 0:38
Is there anything free.
January 28th, 2012, 1:29
HDDScan
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