Comment by bigB

Im guessing the author of this has somewhat of an issue with Steve Gibson and GRC, and has obviously spent some time mulling over how to write a very wordy and seemingly in-depth bashing of the their Spinrite software. However if you like myself have seen it work, and actually take a previously unusable hard drive to a usable state to allow a successful recovery of data, or in recent times, take an SSD with poor performing read and write speeds to a significant improvement after running Spinrite on the drive, you will be able to skip much of the diatribe in this post and actually see that it more of a character assassination on GRC and Gibson himself. Is the software 100% guaranteed to work, nope and I probably wouldn't recommend it for critical enterprise data recovery if you have the budget to spend on commercial recovery services, but as a low price maintenance tool it works well for many. The Author of this posts seems pretty knowledgeable, and probably has alot of offer, which is why its a pity his ego and spiteful nature seeps into his writing.