What SpinRite does. Take a moment to consider this: Whether data is stored magnetically on spinning magnetic discs, or electrostatically in SSDs or other flash media, mass storage devices have no way of determining whether the data that was once written can still be read today unless they are asked to do so. It is only when a mass storage device is asked to read its data that it’s able to discover whether or not that data is readable – and how easily. Until then, it must be taken on faith. This is the reason for SpinRite. SpinRite scans spinning or solid-state mass storage media to verify, restore, repair and improve its current readability. If anything is found to be amiss, SpinRite’s legendary data recovery technology gets to work, often pulling unreadable or barely readable data back from the brink. If this seems difficult to believe, how many thousands of testimonials would you care to read from past SpinRite users? Once the endangered data has been recovered to the best of SpinRite’s ability (which far exceeds any other known utility), what it recovered will be rewritten, possibly into a new location on the media for safe keeping and trouble-free reading when it is needed. We’ve also learned that even when solid state mass storage can be read, storage that is only ever read and rarely written, such as most of operating system files, become more difficult and slower to read as time passes. So well before the data becomes unreadable, a machine’s performance can be significantly impacted. SpinRite can refresh and restore solid state media to “like new” performance.