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#Prosoft drive genius v3 review mac osx#
Requires Mac OSX v10.5.3 or newer – 512 MB RAM MinimumĭVD drive – 512 MB RAM minimum – Intel Processor DriveSlim allows you to reclaim space on your hard drive for files that you really need and use.ĭrive 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.ĭrive Genius was originally introduced in at Macworld San Francisco in 2005 and since that time it has become one of the top selling hard drive utilities on the Macintosh platform. 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. 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. It will defrag the drive by combining all the empty free space together into one contiguous block, this in turns improves the overall speed and performance of the drive. In Drive Genius 3 we have improved Defrag and it now provides even better defragmentation of your files and even more fragmentation information in a new user interface. The most popular feature in Drive Genius is Defrag. DrivePulse® automates everything so the user never has to remember to run these tests manually.

DrivePulse® monitors hardware (via SMART and bad-block testing), volume consistency (via verifying volume structures) and volume fragmentation (via examining volume structures). The new DrivePulse® feature helps you monitor the overall health of your drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems.

Drive Genius 3 also now offers email notifications to alert you when long-running tasks are completed. A new feature called DrivePulse® has been added as well as improvements to Defrag, Repartition and Scan.

#Prosoft drive genius v3 review mac os#
Drive Genius 3 now runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS 10.6 or later with a compatible 64-bit processor and it now offers RAID support. Drive Genius 3 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Prosoft continues to develop and evolve Drive Genius by improving and adding new features with the latest release, Drive Genius 3.

#Prosoft drive genius v3 review software#
I had originally seen this software on one of my regular Mac sites that I visit and thought to myself “This is exactly what I need to help speed up my slow drive.” I’ve been using Onyx and it works for cleaning caches, etc… but it didn’t seem to help the drives performance in any way.ĭrive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. Can it be true that it only works with hard drives? Seriously? Finally, I'm hoping someone with the appropriate technical background can answer this question: Do you really want to be "secure erasing" files or free space on solid state drives? If secure erasing SSD means overwriting it with random patterns over and over, as is typically done with hard drives, doesn't that just increase wear on the SSD and shorten its useful lifetime? Thanks for any replies.The very kind folks at Prosoft Engineering ( ) were nice enough to send me a copy of their Drive Genius 3.0 software to review. Beyond that, DG is just a collection of so-so utilities. I suppose it has a real-time component, but no Mac user should need that anyway. And why did DG feel the need to tack on a "me too" malware scan? There are tons of those out there already. I can't see why anyone would use "Drive Pulse" (or TechTool's equivalent real-time drive monitor).
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TechTool Pro always seemed to me to be better. Even the interface seemed overly slick with all those moving parts. I used to own and use "Drive Genius," but I can't say I ever liked it and I didn't like the pretensions of having "Genius" in the name.
