This the Universal Binary installation CD is in a Sealed Prosoft
DVD Case. Drive Genius: Maintain, Manage, and Optimize Your Hard
Drive.
Drive Genius is an OS X utility designed to provide unsurpassed
storage management. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Drive
Genius is packed with powerful tools such as a drive optimizer, a
comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and
rebuilding volumes, plus excellent testing capabilities with media
surface scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity
checking. It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete
partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of
Defense's standard. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and
duplicate volumes or drives swiftly. Last but not least, Drive
Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving of volumes
without reformatting, and sports a sector editing tool to modify
the data on any sector of the drive -- powerful features that will
satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts.
Drive Genius Is optimized for:
- Mac OS X Tiger Mac OS X v10.4.x Tiger
- Mac OS X Panther Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther only
Why Do I Need Drive Genius?
Emails. Digital pictures. Work files. Music collection. Financial
records. Lets face it, your computer has become an important part
of your life. As you use your computer, your hard drive becomes
bloated with thousands of files, mechanical parts wear and fatigue,
your computer begins to operate more slowly, and eventually fails.
Your only defense is to carefully monitor and manage your hard
drive so you can be sure it is in good health and working at peak
efficiency at all times - doing so might mean the difference
between your productivity and complete data loss. Thankfully, Drive
Genius makes these tedious tasks painless, fast, and easy. From
performance tuning, to disaster recovery, Drive Genius provides all
the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your
digital life.
How Does it Work?
Drive Genius includes essential maintenance tools, effective
optimization tools and powerful management tools.
Essential Maintenance Tools
- Duplicate - Fast and easy volume or entire drive cloning.
- Integrity Check - Find problems before they find you with these
comprehensive hardware verification tests
- Repair - Quickly fix corruption on OS X volume structures to
get your damaged drive up and running fast
- Rebuild - Rebuild and replace OS X volume structures to regain
access to files that have become lost or hidden
- Verify - Check OS X volume structures for possible
corruption
- Fix Permissions - Reset OS X boot volume permissions to improve
application performance and compatibility
- SMART Status - Read and display SMART diagnostic codes from
your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures
Effective Optimization Tools
- Defragment - Get the most speed and efficiency possible by
Optimizing your OS X volumes
- Benchtest - Make sure your hard drive performance is what it
should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons
to other common configurations
- Surface Scan - Verify your hard drive•s reliability with a
complete suite of non-destructive read verification tests for any
drive or OS X volume
- Sector Editor - Fine tune all aspects of your system with
direct, advanced byte viewing and editing of all data on your
drives, volumes and files (for expert users only)
Powerful Management Tools
- Partition - Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions
so you can organize your data more efficiently
- Shred - Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant (5220.22 - m)
secure erase. Removes all traces of data from free space and
deleted files on any device or OS X volume
- Details - In-depth report of specifications and space
utilization of all devices and OS X volumes
- Initialize - Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new
hard drives for use on your computer
| Features |
Prosoft's
Drive Genius |
Symantec's
Norton Utilities |
Micromat's
TechTool 4 |
Alsoft's
DiskWarrior |
| • Mac OS X Compatible |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Bootable CD |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Partition -- Organize data more
efficiently |
| • Resize volume -- on the fly (no
reformatting) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Shift/shift volume -- on the fly (no
reformatting) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Add/Delete a volume |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Reset a hardware copy device |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Hide/Reveal a volume |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Duplicate/Backup -- Volume and
Drive Cloning |
| • Device Cloning (100% identical to
original) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Clone Windows/Tivo/Linux drives |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Volume Cloning |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Device/Volume backup to image |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Bad block recovery/cloning |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| • Fault tolerant backup |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Defragment -- Speed up your OS X
volumes |
| • File Optimization (built into OS X disk
partition) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Disk Optimization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Initialize --High level OS X
formatting |
| • Initialize Drive |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Custom Drive icons |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • OSX partitioning for block devices (USB
etc..) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Shred -- Securely remove all
trace of data |
| • Secure Volume Erase |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| • Secure Drive Erase |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Preventive Maintenance -- Find
problems before it happens |
| • Media Scan |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| • Checks Drive Mechanism |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • SMART Check |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Long term Read/Write Integrity Testing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Enable/Disable Volume Journaling |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Repair -- Fix drive problem after
disaster struck |
| • Disk Structure Repair |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Test Volume Structure |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Directory Optimization |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Rebuild Directory |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Fix Volume Headers |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Fix Volume bit maps |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Fix Permission |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Drive Benchmarking -- Make sure
the drive performance is what it should be |
| • Comprehensive Benchmark capability |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| • Benchmark Database for future
comparison |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Advanced Mode -- for the expert
users out there |
| • Low Level Sector Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Manual/Support |
| • Free Technical Support |
Yes |
$29.95 Per Incident |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Printed Manual |
pdf |
Yes |
Yes |
pdf |
| Price |
| • MSRP |
$99* |
$99 |
$99 |
$79 |