Is there any modern software for low-level testing and recovery of hard drives and SSDs?

Question

linux

Actually, the question is in the title.
The popular and in its own way effective Victoria is a hundred years old at lunchtime, MHDD is even worse. And they say that it is better not to pick new disks with them. And with SSD it is not clear at all.
The question arose in connection with the covering (partially iron, apparently) of the Seagate Barracuda hard drive (yes, yes) on 3TiB. The data, let's say, is of average need - there are no backups in connection with the same, you can find and pump everything again, but for a long time. For the same reason, I won’t carry it to the “office”. Therefore, there is a desire to extract information from the deceased.
Amusing symptoms: Windows slows down, but sees the root of the FS, when you try to go through catching, either the disk stops (it just drops out of the system), or the axis is completely frozen. The same Victoria sees (each time) the bad at the beginning of the disk and even remaps it, but there is no result.
Simple “software” recovery programs also do nothing productive - either they don’t see it at all (GPT is the same), or the same symptoms as with Windows.
Isn't there, say, some ready-made Linux distribution where you could take the image from the disk, and then run it with recovery programs or something like that? And it seems that the development of data recovery stopped in 2012.

Answer 1

There are hardware and software complexes for low-level work with HDD, like PC-3000 and the like.

And it seems that the development of data recovery stopped in 2012.

- in fact, everything is simple:
The old hdd is a dumb piece of iron with a magnetic disk and motors, which is completely controlled by a computer .
A modern hdd is a complex electronic device that accepts commands to write and read data from a computer, and nothing more. Low-level commands can only be given by connecting directly to the disk controller, and not through a standard SATA bus. And even then not always.
A modern ssd is generally a computer that has a processor, RAM, internal storage, and it only accepts standard read and write commands. And you can’t even say exactly where he writes what, he decides all this on his own.

Answer 2

clonezilla

Answer 3

Rsa97 for some reason I can not send a comment.
And she can clone the contents if the piece of iron fails? That is, they began to copy, flew out, turned over, continued from the place of the cliff? Or am I talking nonsense? :-)

Answer 4

MHDD is more alive than all the living. Its DOS nature is due to the fact that you need direct access to hardware, which modern operating systems do not provide.