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.

Features:

* 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
* 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)
* 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.

What's New:

* An Intel-based Macintosh running 10.5.3 or later is required.
* DrivePulse optionally monitors the overall health of your drives
in the background, alerting you to possible issues before they become
major problems.
* Runs as a 64-bit application on 10.6 or later with a compatible
64-bit processor.
* Enhanced Defrag provides even better defragmentation of files and
presents more fragmentation information in a new UI.
* Includes a System Service to securely erase files, folders or
volumes from any application (as part of DrivePulse).
* E-mail notifications can be sent when long-running tasks complete
and you are away from your computer.
* Drives formatted with Bootcamp support are supported by Repartition.
Windows volumes can be moved, but not resized.
* Scan supports realtime bad-block sparing and an extended block
verification test that stress tests the read and write validity of
every block.
* Scan can perform a "live" block verification of the boot disk/volume.
* Repair can perform a "live" file system verification of
the boot volume.
* Hardware based RAID and Apple's software RAID are supported.
Software RAID support is limited; the physical drives belonging to
the RAID set cannot be used with most tools. The logical RAID volume
though is fully supported by all tools. Please note that SoftRAID
is not supported.
* Drive, volume and file sizes are displayed to match the OS (base 10
on 10.6+ and base 2 on 10.5.x).
* DriveSlim ignores files in the Trash.

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