It's actually not that good at saving drives, however it sometimes saves your data. Lately I've used it to recover a 250 GB drive that was part of a failed RAID

It's actually not that good at saving drives, however it sometimes saves your data. Lately I've used it to recover a 250 GB drive that was part of a failed RAID-5 array, and miraculously got the data back. So SpinRite may be handy, but throw the drive away after use.