Prosoft Drive Genius (Mac)
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Features: Partition - Organize data more efficiently
Defragment - Speed up your OS X volumes
Initialize - High level OS X formatting
Shred - Securely remove all traces of data
Preventative Maintenance -Find problems before they happen
Editorial Reviews:
Drive Genius provides unsurpassed hard drive management. It includes essential maintenance tools, effective optimization tools and powerful management tools. Use its simple interface, drive optimizer&comprehensive repair facility will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts. You can also handle scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking -- and analyze, repair and rebuild volumes easily. Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life. Use the SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures Surface Scan verifies hard drive reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive tests Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions Get in-depth reports of specifications and space use of all devices and OS X volumes
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Garbage
Comment: Faulty, misleading expencive up supported trash. Charges for updates, doesen't work or do anything only mess up your mard drive, disk utility has the same features but it actually works. If you defrag your mac drive using this kiss it goodbye. Now they have drive ididot 2 out don't be a sucker save your money and stay away from this lousey excuse of a program.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Killed my drive
Comment: This product worked for me for a while with no problem, and seemed like a great utility. Then one day a drive with 40 gigs of movie files was running a little slow. After "verifying" and "repairing" and "rebuilding" the drive I clicked on defragment. The dialog comes up warning to backup data because loss of power during defragmenting could cause loss of data. As soon as I clicked OK, the program quit unexpectedly rendering the drive inaccessable and all data lost! I wish I had used DiskWarrior for the defrag, because it doesn't rewrite directory data until a few seconds at the very end the process. Only use this as a last resort. No other utility could rescue my drive. I can't even imagine if this had happened to my main startup drive with all my applications and pictures.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Do Not Defragment iMac Intel Core Duo with this product
Comment: It killed my harddrive and the only way to restart was to erase with entire computer with the OSX install disk. I was able to plug in a laptop so that the Intel iMac acted as a firewire drive and grab back a few essentials but I lost everything on my desktop and my emails.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Prosoft Drive Genius (Mac)
Comment: This is a full featured Utility Program. Does all of the maintenance on Mac OSX (10.3.9 or higher) that isn't included with OSX. It monitors your harddrive health, repairs permissions, tests system speed and operability, and will Defragment your harddrive (first time will take hours). My Mac is running like a new computer and after using Prosoft Drive Genius (Mac) I highly recommend it for the health of OSX and your computer. I wish I hadn't spent the money on Disk Warrior (only repairs permissions) and purchased Drive Genius first.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well, some people seem to like it.
Comment: A while ago, even though my Mac was working fine, I noticed that I couldn't repair permissions anymore and got the dreaded "error 9972" message by way of explanation. I therefore decided to purchase a drive repair and/or maintenance program. My local Apple store technician suggested Drive Genius instead of DiskWarrior, as that is what he used for day-to-day maintenance.
Drive Genius couldn't solve the problem. Oh, well, there was of course no certainty that it could... These programs are supposed to try, but there's never a guarantee of success. No biggie. I reformatted the drive just in case, zeroed everything, and reinstalled everything. Now that the machine was back to normal and that Apple's Disk Utility could repair permissions and see no fault with the drive, I decided to use the Duplicate function of Drive Genius to keep a clone of my drive, in case it acted up again in the future. It couldn't do it. Kept saying there was a problem with the drive, and it couldn't repair it. I tried to use other Drive Genius options to see if my drive had bad blocks. Couldn't get to the end of that test either. I ended up copying all my files by hand, one by one, without a glitch.
Now I could accept that my drive has somehow gone bad without presenting any symptoms, but Disk Utility sees nothing wrong with it. If there's indeed a problem with my computer it must be very minor, since it works fine and that its files can be handled, used and copied manually without trouble. Nevertheless, that intangible problem seems to be enough to halt Drive Genius in its tracks.
So as far as I'm concerned, Drive Genius has thus far proven to be an expensive and useless purchase. I should have gone with DiskWarrior for the 9972 fix, and trusted to Disk Utility for usual maintenance.
Technical Details
Batteries Included: 0Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Global Marketing Partners
EAN: 0794038231009
Feature: Partition - Organize data more efficiently
Format: CD
Label: Global Marketing Partners
Manufacturer: Global Marketing Partners
Model: 23100
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Global Marketing Partners
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Studio: Global Marketing Partners
