I also know, from my recent experience with the desktop system I'm typing this on now - an Optiplex 9010) that running SR level 3 on an SSD does indeed fix the problems exposed by ReadSpeed. Today, my main system with a 500GB M.2 NvME decided it was going to start freezing, then blue-screening, and I *know* if I could run ReadSpeed on the drive, I'd likely see it is the source of the issue (WD Black, 2 years old). Have been using Spinrite since early this century after being introduced to it through the SN podcast (when podcasting was still a novel thing), and have been patiently waiting for 6.1, as we all have, for years. Still hoping for a Spinrite that can run on my HP Elitebook machine before i change it.
(I imagine that buyers for the last year or two that has been promised upgrade to 6.1 would expect UEFI support as a part of 6.1) By making it two different versions it would not impact the timing of 6.1, and it would make a version with UEFI support available (Also for sale) faster than if that first came in version 7.
I would be happy to pay for the upgrade of my license of 6.0 to a version that will work on the computers I use. But I really hope that Steve will make a upgrade to 6.5 or something that adds UEFI support, (and nothing else). Buyers of 6.0 from many years ago have had their money worth, over years. They all seem to be UEFI boot only, as I expect most future machines will be? I also assume that the reply above means that 6.1 will never run on any of these computers?
Very eager to test the ReadSpeed utility I see that I probably do not have any machines that I can test it on. The focus has been speed, but it has been issues making it hard to solve issues on newer machines, to the point where I have stopped using Spinrite some time ago. The last few years I have had a lot of issues to run Spinrite on several computers, and as everyone else I have been looking so much forward to version 6.1 that should solve the issues. Click to expand.I am a little disappointed at this.