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Drive Genius 3.2.x

Mac / 10.8 Compatible
Maintain, Manage, Optimize & Repair your Hard Drives
Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why? Are you seeing the beach ball more or having other issues with your hard drive?
Drive Genius 3.2.x is used by Apple at the Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up.
Drive Genius 3 now runs as a 64-bit application and includes new features such as DrivePulse®, the best way to monitor the overall health of your Mac hard drive, alerting you to possible hard drive issues before they become major problems, RAID Support, Email Notifications, and has enhanced previous features including Defrag, Repartition and Scan from the previous version Drive Genius 2.

Drive Genius 3 is the best Mac hard drive utility for the Mac platform. A new user interface, Drive Pulse®, 64-bit, Enhanced Defrag, RAID Support, Enhanced Repartition, Scan and Email Notifications are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 3. Optimize your Mac hard drive with Drive Genius 3. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your Mac hard drive and speed up your Mac!*

Traditionally, Mac 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 3 makes these tedious tasks painless, fast and easy.

*Part of ProCare Yearly TuneUp
The importance to defragment your Mac hard drives
Mac users always ask, "How can I speed up my Mac?" If you want to speed up your mac, you can do it with the most-awarded mac utility software, Drive Genius 3- Your Mac hard drive has tens of thousands of important computer files on it. Your hard drive, also referred to as your Mac HD, is where all your digital pictures, emails, work files, videos and other files are stored. With so many important files being stored in one location, it's important that you take steps to make sure your Mac is not only running smoothly and optimized for peak performance, but also that the files themselves are managed better so that if there ever is a need for emergency file recovery, you will stand a better chance at recovering your files.

Defragging your hard drive, also referred to as optimizing your hard drive or Mac, is an important task to run on a regular basis. Defragging your hard drive with Drive Genius will improve the performance of your Mac as well as improve the recovery chances should your Mac become corrupted.

Better performance for your Mac hard drive is accomplished by defragmenting each file that the Mac Operating System skips. The Mac OS only defrags files if they are under 20mb in size. You have thousands of files larger than that threshold, including most of your important files like pictures and videos. Drive Genius' award-winning, used-by-apple defrag tool makes the file one contiguous file again. This is great for performance as your Mac doesn't have to piece fragments of files together upon opening it. Also, this is great for recovery, should your Mac crash. Recovery of a single, contiguous file is much more successful and likely compared to recovery of a highly fragmented file. In other words, if your drive contains a lot of fragmented files then the recovery success is usually lower, compared to a drive contains mostly unfragmented files.

So when someone asks, "I need to speed up my Mac. What should you do?" one answer would be to clean up the Mac hard drive with a defragmentation routine. Drive Genius 3's defrag tool is the number one selling, most-used Mac defrag tool for Mac OS X. Apple has been using it at the Genius Bar for over 5 years now.

Drive Genius 3 will reorganize the larger files and defrag them (consolidating the file into one contiguous file), improving seek and opening times. This reduces wear on the Mac hard drive because the read/write heads do not need to travel as much across the media when searching for a file. Drive Genius 3 also compacts the larger files to allow them to be saved without fragmentation.

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Reviews

  • "This is a rock-solid program that works as advertised. Drive Genius is definitely worth a place in your utility closet."
  • "Beyond tasks that will directly diagnose or solve problems, Drive Genius has options to help you manage your drives."
  • "If you're interested in keeping your Mac in tip-top shape, it's hard to go wrong with a tool that the pros use."
  • "A wonderful application, well-executed, easy to use and well worth five stars."
  • "Prosoft picked up where Norton's left off and frankly did a much better job."
  • "Prosoft's Drive Genius lives up to its name by providing comprehensive disk-repair tools and performance enhancing defragmentation routines to keep your Mac's drive in tip-top condition."
  • "You may not need DriveGenius, but your Mac will be more efficient if you get it."
  • "For users who absolutely rely on their computer, DrivePulse will help detect small problems."
  • "A good update that makes this excellent precautionary tool even better."
  • "Drive Genius 3 is such a serious and comprehensive upgrade, it could be the only disk management tool you need."
  • "With an interface that's close to foolproof, Drive Genius mixes advanced features with ease of use."
  • "We'd recommend this app for any technical Mac user as well as sysadmins looking for some GUI aid for that occasional maintainence and service of a fleet of Macintoshs."
  • "Drive Genius 3 is used by Apple at the Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up."
  • "As far as Mac recovery software goes, Drive Genius 3 is a shining example of what happens when developers put thought and care into their software."

System Requirements

Current Release Version: 3.2.2

Drive Genius 3 requires an Intel Processor-based Mac

  • OS X 10.6.8 / 10.7 / 10.8
  • 1GB RAM Minimum
  • Intel® Processor

Drive Genius 3 can be installed onto your Startup Disk and run as an application

Drive Genius 3, when run as an application from your Startup Disk, allows you to run the following tools/features on the startup disk of your Mac, as well as any other non-startup drives that are connected:
  • Info
  • Defrag *
  • DriveSlim
  • Verify / Repair Permissions
  • Standard Scan
  • Free-space only Shred
  • DrivePulse

You can run Drive Genius 3 from a secondary Startup Disk

  • Repartition
  • Repair
  • Extended Scan
  • Initialize
  • Duplicate
  • Non-Free Space Shred
  • Sector Edit
  • Integrity
  • Benchtest

Apple Fusion Drive Support

Apple Fusion Drive is a concept which combines high storage capacity of traditional hard drives with the high performance of flash storage.

The list below indicates which of the Drive Genius 3 features are currently supported with Apple Fusion Drives.

  • Supported
    • Defrag (from 2nd startup disk)
    • Repair/Rebuild
    • Volume Duplication
    • Volume Scan
  • Not Supported
    • Live Defrag
    • Repartiton
    • Drive Duplication
    • Drive Scan

Notes

* LiveDefrag is not available if you are running File Vault 2 full disk encryption. In that set up, you must startup from a secondary startup disk.
Prosoft Drive Genius 3.2.x Mfr P/N: 59100 OWC SKU: PRS59100 Maintain, Manage, Optimize & Repair your Hard Drives. Drive Genius 3 now includes DrivePulse, the easiest way to monitor the overall health of your drive. The same product used at the Genius Bar to defrag hard drives! Ships: Same Day only $65.00 Prosoft Engineering 59100 In Stock, Click to Buy Now
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