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Does SpinRite support hard drive SMART capability?

April 26, 2017capability SMART SpinRite support

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Does SpinRite support hard drive SMART capability?

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Yes. SpinRite supports SMART more completely and usefully than anything else ever has. Upon first use, SpinRite activates and enables a drive’s disabled SMART subsystem. When SpinRite is not actively running on the drive, the “static” state of the drive’s SMART data is displayed. When SpinRite is running on a drive, the drive’s SMART data both the standard SMART parameters and the more detailed SMART event counters are continuously polled, monitored, and displayed. Much more useful information about the true health and robustness of a drive can be gained by monitoring the SMART system’s feedback while the drive is under an actual workload. No other software has ever done this. Note: Some default SATA configurations can limit SpinRite’s ability to obtain SMART information from SATA drives even though all other data recovery operations will work without limitation. See the SATA knowledgebase article for specific information about SpinRite v6.