I’ve used Drive Genius for over a decade, and I trust it more than any other disk utility except (perhaps) DiskWarrior. hard) disk, there is a defragmenting utility that can improve overall performance, boot time, application launch times, and how quickly large files open.ĭrive Genius also monitors your startup disk for system changes during login and notifies you if a change occurs (this is a common vector for malware).įinally, Drive Genius can almost always repair or rebuild a damaged disk after it alerts you of the issue.
There’s also a malware scanner, as well as both physical and consistency checks for your disks.
It also includes utilities for cloning, securely erasing, repartitioning, and initializing hard or solid-state drives. Drive Genius Utilitiesīut, Drive Genius does much more than just monitor your drives for issues before they become problems. The scan took hours but it ran in the background, so it didn’t interfere with other work on my Mac. I then used Drive Genius’s Find Duplicates and Find Large Files utilities to find and remove nearly 1TB of duplicate and large files. The onscreen alert a few minutes later was worded a bit more strongly: This more strongly worded DrivePulse alert appeared on my screen a few minutes after the email alert.
Here’s the email: This is the DrivePulse email alert I received… The other day I received two alerts that one of my backup drives (named “4TB of backups”) was low on free space. I don’t know that I’ve seen this yet, but I believe it.Īnyway, since I wrote last week’s column, Drive Genius 5 alerted me to yet another disk-related issue I was having but didn’t know it, and then helped me resolve it before it caused problems. According to Prosoft, Drive Genius 5 can even predict drive failure before it occurs.
0 kommentar(er)
