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Software : Drive Genius 2 |
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List Price: $99.00Amazon.com's Price: $59.99 You Save: $39.01 (39%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: ProSoft Engineering
EAN: 0794038521001
Format: CD-ROM
Label: ProSoft Engineering
Manufacturer: ProSoft Engineering
Model: 52100
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: ProSoft Engineering
Release Date: February 10, 2008
Sales Rank: 166
Studio: ProSoft Engineering
Features:- 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 optimize 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.
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Drive Genius..genius
Drive Genius 2
Exactly what I needed! A simple, yet effective, software to manage hard disks (be it internal or external, FW or USB or SATA). The sale's pitch from the company is radically true. Please be sure to read the user's guide, as there are a number of different manipulations that you can do on a HD.
Totally satisfied (specially the re-partition and the defragment options).
Rating: - Drive Genius v2.1-Excellent Product / Excellent Service
I have found Drive Genius v2.1 to be an excellent and important addition to the software I use. I have found it ease to use and fast. It has done an excellent and fast job of defragmentation, scanning, repair to mention just a few of its available functions. It does require boot from a boot disk in order to do its stuff on the boot hard drive but that is normal for all of the software I have used in this category. When working with all of my external hard drives it works from my primary hard ... Read More
Rating: - It works as promised
I was pretty skeptical about using this software after reading the reviews. But I got it from a bundle deal and after the Mac Geniuses uses it so I gave it whirl. After running the part to that identifies files to remove I eliminated 3.5 gigs of space that I wasn't using. It worked great. A week later and I can't detect any problems it caused. I also ran the disc defrag. It also has worked well. I'd say its a great utility to have.
Rating:  - Very Useful Product
Product arrived on time. Packaging is kinda weird -- it's one CD, but comes in a double width DVD case.
Works exactly as expected EXCEPT the disk "cloning" feature will only work if it's not the STARTUP disc being "cloned" -- that's a bit annoying, since freeware applications (such as SuperDuper!) WILL do this. Also, some of the utilities are twins of ones that the OS already provides.
Also, the product has been updated -- update is available from the ProSoft website ... Read More
Rating: - Exonerated! Balancing the Bashing- read on...
There WERE boot problems with some Intel Mac models running newer Leopard versions when Drive Genius 2 was first released, caused by Apple's footdragging and their delayed release of required startup parameters. However, all other Drive Genius 2 features were and are functional. Prosoft Engineering was head and shoulders above other utility software vendors (who shall remain unnamed) in their response to the fix with the release of v2.0.3. (Don't get me started on the Santa Rosa outfit that always ... Read More
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