Timeline for Did Steve Gibson's Spinrite actually do anything useful by "refreshing" the disc's magnetic domains?
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| Aug 1 at 20:03 | comment | added | Adam Hyland | I'm talking about comments you made in this thread which have since been deleted. Hope that helps! | |
| Aug 1 at 19:09 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @AdamHyland ? ? What the hell? I asked about MFM sector formatting. | |
| Aug 1 at 17:00 | comment | added | Adam Hyland | Wild thing to say given that you made it about yourself to begin with. | |
| Jul 31 at 22:33 | comment | added | Miss Understands | Thank you. When it becomes about me instead of the conversation, I leave the conversation. | |
| Jul 31 at 20:08 | history | edited | Tommy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31 at 18:32 | comment | added | wizzwizz4♦ | @JessFuckett I've edited your comment, and removed some of the others. In future, feel free to flag for moderator attention when this happens. (We can also set up a private chat room if any time you want to discuss something.) (If you delete your last comment, you can flag this one as No Longer Needed. Otherwise, they'll probably be deleted in a few days.) | |
| Jul 31 at 17:02 | comment | added | dave | For Gibson, the term 'spin doctor' is doubly appropriate. | |
| Jul 31 at 14:56 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 31 at 14:05 | comment | added | Justme | @JessFuckett Actually most of flash wearing is caused by erase process rather than write. You can always write individual bits low but erase happens in larger blocks. The charges do fade over years if left untouched, and flash wears out on read too - it's called "read disturb" and flash wear leveling algorithms need to handle that as well. So much for predictable life for SSDs. Yes, unrelated to magnetic media but somewhat similar. | |
| Jul 31 at 13:26 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @Justme SSD wear occurs when information is written. That gives it a finite, predictable lifetime. That's how the controller knows when to retire a memory cell, and it's unrelated to the issue of magnetic domains in metals fading with time. | |
| Jul 31 at 12:59 | comment | added | Justme | "Was it ever" is a retro question, but "why isn't it now" is not. @AlanB That's because it is likely that SSD controllers scan and refresh the fading memory cells themselves without user intervention like modern hard drived but the old hard drives didn't. | |
| Jul 31 at 12:54 | history | edited | Miss Understands | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31 at 12:53 | comment | added | Miss Understands | I'd like to make a Steve Gibson fan club. He did some amazing stuff in security. | |
| Jul 31 at 12:48 | comment | added | Alan B | Well it definitely won't be necessary on SSD drives. | |
| Jul 31 at 12:43 | history | asked | Miss Understands | CC BY-SA 4.0 |