a review by Tom Piper
Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why? Are you seeing the beach ball more or having other issues with your hard drive? Do you have other problems that are creating a lot of suspicion about the health of your hard drive?
To help set aside your fears and solve potential problems, look at Drive Genius 3, which is probably the best hard drive utility on the Mac platform. It includes DrivePulse, Enhanced Defrag, DriveSlim, and Enhanced Repartition as only a few of the award-winning features of this dynamite program. Even Apple uses it at their Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up.
Prosoft continues to develop and evolve Drive Genius by improving and adding new features with the latest release, Drive Genius 3. It 3 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius, and now runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS 10.6 or later with a compatible 64-bit processor. Drive Genius 3 also now offers email notifications to alert you when long-running tasks are completed.
The new DrivePulse feature helps you monitor the overall health of your drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems. It monitors hardware (via SMART and bad-block testing), volume consistency (via verifying volume structures) and volume fragmentation (via examining volume structures). DrivePulse even automates everything so the user never has to remember to run these tests manually.
The most popular feature in Drive Genius is Defrag. Prosoft has improved Defrag which now provides even better defragmentation by combining all the empty free space together into one contiguous block, which in turn improves the overall speed and performance of the drive. Enhanced repartition has also been improved and gives you the ability to add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your drive more efficiently.
DriveSlim is another popular feature which helps you get the most out of your Macintosh by identifying unnecessary files that are clogging and filling up your hard drive. It allows you to reclaim space on your hard drive for files that you really need and use. Drive Genius 3 also features a wide array of other features including directory repair, device/volume cloning, integrity testing, benchmarking, secure erase and several other tools to help maintain your hard drive.
Drive Genius 3 ships on a bootable DVD from Prosoft Engineering, Inc. The regular price is $99.00 at www.prosofteng.com/products (a free demo is available at www.prosofteng.com/downloads). This utility is a fundamental and essential part of my toolbox of important software; it would look good in yours too!
Comments