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I remember running Spinrite regularly on my 286 as a kid in the early 90s like some sort of maintenance ritual, watching the magical blob pulsing like it was do
by sirtaj 2y ago
I remember running Spinrite regularly on my 286 as a kid in the early 90s like some sort of maintenance ritual, watching the magical blob pulsing like it was doing something deeply important. Meanwhile, each time it ran it would either 1) test a sector that had been marked bad and then unmark it as ok, or 2) test the same sector and mark it bad again.
The idea that that same app is doing something useful 30+ years later strains credulity.
- downrightmike 2y agoThe way drives work, hasn't really changed at the low level, they've just been crammed with space.
- sirtaj 2y agoThe interfaces by which the system communicates with the drive have been heavily abstracted though, which means spinrite is now similar to a block copy with failure retries.
- effie 2y agoIt is not the same app, he had a release 6.0 and 6.1 recently, and he deals with SSDs now.