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Drive Genius 3 - Maintain, Manage and Optimize Your Hard Drive
Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why? Are you seeing the beach ball more and more? Try Drive Genius 2, the most comprehensive hard drive utility on the Mac platform - Defrag, DriveSlim, Repartition-on-the-fly and Clone are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. Recently awarded the Editor's Choice award from Mac Life Magazine.
New in Drive Genius Drive Genius 3.0.1
• Defrag now reports fragmentation as a percentage of used space and total space.
• Workaround for a possible DrivePulse launch error after a system restart due to heavy system load.
• DrivePulse should no longer trigger the use of the discrete GPU in the 15" and 17" 2010 MacBook Pros.
• DrivePulse no longer requires an admin password to launch, but it must have read access to the Drive Genius application.
• Several haxies that caused Drive Genius to crash are now detected and will prevent Drive Genius from launching.
• Stability improvements to DrivePulse and DriveSlim.
• Bug Fix: The Secure Erase system service would not operate on the boot volume.
• Bug Fix: Possible spurious volume integrity warning from DrivePulse. (Only affected a small number of Time Machine volumes.)
• Bug Fix: DriveSlim failed to cancel during the search phase (32bit only).
"We are continually improving and adding features to Drive Genius 3 for our users. We are dedicated to create the best utility on the Mac platform. Prosoft prides itself on great customer service and support, alongside award-winning products, says Greg Brewer, CEO of Prosoft Engineering. We\'re also excited to offer a competitive upgrade to Drive Genius 3. Details can be found at our website."
Drive Genius 3 Minimum System Requirements:
• An Intel Processor-based Mac
• Mac OS 10.5.3 or later
• 512mb RAM Minimum
• Intel Processor
Boot-disc Requirements
• DVD drive
• 512mb RAM Minimum
• Intel Processor
Drive Genius sells for $99.00.
Prosoft also allows users to try out the software with part of the feature set disabled. To use in Trial mode, click Trial.
The following features are not enabled in the trial version:
• Benchtest
• Repartition
• Integrity Check
• Duplicate
• Sector Edit (Writing)
• Defragment
• Initialize
• Repair and Rebuild
For more information, visit:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php
Drive Genius 3 is available for purchase online at http://www.prosoftengineering.com and at Apple Stores.
For more information, visit:
http://www.prosoftengineering.com
For Charles Moore's most recent Applelinks Review of Drive Genius 2, click here
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This link ^ gets me the calendar instead of the review.
While the calendar has its own
merits, what’s in the review?
I’ve tried DG and DG2, and wonder if they’re what
ruined two of my Mac OS X systems…
Thanks again for the articles and working links!