G+_Golden Retriever Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Recycling and old idea that's been floating around awhile as I don't recall anyone doing it. I am interested in a spinrite / HDD duplicator in one box. I remember someone posting that they had maximized performance by running it in a VM to enable UDMA transfers, has anyone used one of the kit PCs like NEXT THING CO. Chip PC or a raspberry PI, ETC.... to make a spin write box? I would like to put it inside this HDD duplicator I have as it would be nice after recovering a drive to make a duplicate at that point and the just plug it in factor would be nice. Also I love both SN and KH shows so a cross tie of the shows would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Spinrite requires an x86 processor, so Chip and Raspberry Pi won't work. An Intel NUC should work or there's a few other micro PCs available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Wild Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 I would love a device like this. I am a mac user who bought Spinrite over a decade ago and have yet to use it because I don't have a machine that will run it :-( Please keep me posted on your progress. Does anyone already sell a machine like the one you are proposing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Michael Wild I thought all the newer Macs had Intel processors and could run Windows/DOS... Spinrite can't run natively in Windows either, which is why some turn to VMware. The alternative is to put it on a bootable thumbdrive running freedos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Golden Retriever Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 I thought they now have one or mo VMs you can run dos in? I thought I implied that in my first comment but perhaps not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Golden Retriever Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 I wonder how fast steve could optimize spinright to be if it were customized for a particular Hardware platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Golden Retriever Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 Hay I'm not real good at this particular social media sites, can anyone tag Jayson Padre and Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Tod Sage? - I'm not sure that Steve Gibson? uses G+. I hear Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ? is on here sometimes though. It's pretty simple to tag someone though... Just add a + before their name. From hearing Steve explain the functionality of Spinrite, I'm not so sure optimizing for a specific machine would make a lot of difference. It sounds like the bottleneck is more the read/write speed of the drive typically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Tod Sage?, Any progress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Golden Retriever Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 Nope, but i have expanded the idea to a post called "technicians tool kit device" under General discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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