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Prosoft Drive Genius v2.2.1 (Latest): Maintain, Manage, Optimize & Repair your Hard Drives. Fully Compatible with G4/G5 & Intel Mac Systems - Universal Binary **OWC Special Price 50% off retail!** (PRS52100) Same Day $49.99
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Drive Genius 2

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Drive Genius 2.2.1 - Mac
Maintain, Manage and Optimize Your Hard Drive

Mac | Universal

Is your computer running slower? Drive Genius 2.x is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. Disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2.2.1. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!*

*Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple

Drive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. Drive Genius 2.x is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance in the new version. One of the most noticeable and eye catching changes is the updated user interface. Drive Genius 2.2.1 makes hard maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy.

Traditionally, hard drive maintenance and management has been difficult, time-consuming and confusing. In many cases people skip these critical activities — sometimes leading to disaster. Thankfully, Drive Genius 2.2.1 makes these tedious tasks painless, fast and easy.

Drive Genius 2

Awards

iCreate UK, January 2009 - "Best in Show 2009"
iCreate UK

MyMac.com, March 2009 - "Drive Genius 2 Review"
MyMac.com

MacNN, Sept 2008 — “First Look: Drive Genius 2.1, disk utility”
MacNN

Mac Directory, Winter 2008 - "Apple News"
Mac Directory

Macworld - "Drive Genius 2 Review"
Macworld

MacFormat, June 2009 - "Prosoft Drive Genius 2 review"
MacFormat

Macworld, July 2005 — “Easy-to-use hard drive partitions...”
Macworld

Macworld UK, March 2007 — “Drive Genius”
Macworld Editor's Choice

 

Drive Genius 2
Drive Genius 2
Drive Genius 2

Features

Powerful Management Tools

  • Repartition On-The-Fly – Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your drive more efficiently.
  • Shred – Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant (5220.22 - m) secure erase. Removes all traces of data from free space and deleted data on any drive or OS X volume.
  • Details – In-depth report of specifications and space utilization of all drives or OS X volumes.
  • Initialize – Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new hard drives for use on your computer.

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 and errors 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 – Corrects OS X boot volume permissions to improve application performance and compatibility.
  • S.M.A.R.T Status – Read and display S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures.

Effective Optimization Tools

  • DriveSlim™ – Free up more space on your hard drive with Duplicate Files Search, Large Files Search, Language Support Removal and Universal Binary slimming.
  • Defragment – Get the most speed and efficiency possible by optimizing your hard drive(s).
  • 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).


Drive Genius 2.2.1 Requirements

Application Requirements:

  • Mac OS 10.4.9 or newer
  • 256mb RAM Minimum
  • 1.0GHz processor minimum

Boot-disc Requirements:

  • DVD drive
  • PowerPC G4 (867 Mhz or faster), G5, or Intel processor
  • 512mb RAM Minimum

** RAID Drives Not Supported

 

 

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