Originally Posted By: artie505
For deniro's benefit, as far as I know you can run a surface scan while you're working.

Is that correct?

Given that the surface scanning tools I use, TechTool Pro 8, Drive Genius 4, and SoftRAID 5 all dismount the drive (or array) that is being scanned the answer would be NO. You might be able to work from another boot drive but the surface scan utilities typically use 100% of all four cores in my Mac mini as well as max out the disk I/O channel response time would be glacial.

Last edited by joemikeb; 01/31/16 09:42 PM. Reason: Remembered the dismount

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