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Drive Genius II (Mac)

by ProSoft Engineering
Mac
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Mac
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Drive Genius 2 for Mac
  • Disk defrag - optimizes the drive, then combines all the empty free space together into one contiguous block. This in turn improves the overall speed and performance of the drive
  • Directory repair, repartition on-the-fly, device/volume cloning, integrity testing, benchmarking, secure erase and several other tools to help maintain your hard drive
  • Your hard drive should be defragged every 2 months or so. If you are working with smaller files (Microsoft Office, emails) you should run defrag every 3 to 4 months
  • OS X only optimizes files under 20MB. It also only optimizes the files not the drive, so even though the smaller files are optimized there can be empty space in between the files themselves. Drive Genius 2 has the ability to optimsize the drive, by putting all pieces of the file together
  • Able to repartition your hard drive 'on-the-fly' (no need to reformat the hard drive) allowing you to add, delete, hide or expand partitions live

Product details

  • Item Weight: 181 g
  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
  • ASIN: B001329LRW
  • Release Date: 1 Sep 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,279 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

ATPM rated Excellent May 2008

Drive Genius was originally introduced in at Macworld San Francisco in 2005, and since that time it has become one of the top selling utilities at the Apple Store. It has been reviewed and evaluated by all the major Mac publications and has received glowing reviews and awards.(It was named "Labs Winner" as the best tool in its class by MacUser - UK magazine 2 years in a row. Drive Genius 2 is also used at Apple's Genius Bar in their Apple ProCare program.);Your own private Mac Genius.The Bottom Line: It's important to care for your data, but don't forget to also take care of your hard drive. Drive Genius 2 makes it easy. (MacLife rating 5 and Editors Choice- July 2008) This is a rock-solid program that works as advertised. Ultimately I gave it a rating of Excellent because in the scope of things my concerns were minor. Drive Genius is definitely worth a place in your utility closet.

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Product Description

Is your Mac running slower? You probably need to defrag your drive. Although OS X optimizes the files in the Mac, it doesn't optimize the drive itself. Drive Genius 2 has the ability to defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly. This is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive (Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple). This software makes hard drive maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy. So prevent disaster by using Drive Genius 2 to maintain your computer.

Bootable DVD allows you to boot directly from the DVD Features - Partition, Shred, Details, Initialize, Duplicate, Integrity Check, Repair, Rebuild, Verify, Fix Permissions, S.M.A.R.T Status, Defragment, Benchtest, Surface Scan, Sector Editor (for expert users only).

System Requirements DVD drive Mac OS 10.4.9 or newer User interface animations require Quartz Extreme support (G4 or newer) 256mb RAM 1.0GHz processor minimum


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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This software is not cheap but you get what you pay for. Not only does it do all the tasks it says on the box, it does them efficiently and clearly with one of the simplest and clearest interfaces I have seen on a piece of software of this sophistication. If you thought you didn't need to defragment your Mac, Drive Genius II will prove you wrong and speed up your machine as a result. If you thought your hard drive was full, Drive Genius II will find spaces you never knew existed and give you a tidy lump of space back on your hard drive. The software is beautifully packaged, the online manual is easy and intuitive to use and, for anyone whose Mac is maybe getting a bit old, tired and full, this software will rejuvinate it. Highly recommended.
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Lifesaver! 10 Sep 2010
Unbeatable for editing, reformatting, erasing & defragmenting drives. Makes everything easy to a degree where Apple should take note - disk utility should be laid out like this. Mind you, if you only need to repair & defrag only, then buy Disk Warrior instead as that is the best at repair & optimisation. DW will spot & fix what DG & Disk Utility miss. This was the case on my machine. But I needed both software for what I did at Uni.
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Macs are famously maintenance free as far as the user is concerned. But if you do want a tool that will keep everything in tip top shape then this is the product for you. It's marvellous. If offers a range of maintenance tasks in an easy to follow format, and I would not now be without it.
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