Drive Genius
Drive Genius is a hard drive utility that speeds up, cleans up and optimizes your Mac.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Features
- Duplicate File Finder
- Disk Maintenance
- File Shredder
Tags
- Disk Cleaner
- remove-unnecessary-language
Drive Genius information
Developed by
Prosoft Engineering, Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Alternatives
8 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Drive Genius?
Drive Genius is a hard drive utility that speeds up, cleans up and optimizes your Mac.
New Features
DrivePulse
Monitors the overall health of your Mac hard drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems.
64-bit
Runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS 10.7 or later.
Enhanced Defrag
Provides even better defragmentation of your files and even more fragmentation information in a new user interface to help speed up your Mac.
RAID Support
Support for hardware RAID and Apple's software RAID.
Enhanced Repartition
Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your Mac hard drive more efficiently.
Scan
Realtime bad-block scanning and an extended block verification that stress tests the read/write validity.
Email Notifications
E-mail notifications can be sent when long-running Mac hard drive maintenance tasks complete and you are away from your Mac.
Existing Features
Repair
Quickly fix corruption and errors to get your damaged Mac hard drive up and running fast.
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).
Information
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.
DriveSlim
Free up more space on your Mac hard drive with Duplicate Files Search, Large Files Search, Language Support Removal and Universal Binary slimming.
Benchtest
Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons to other common configurations.
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.
Comments and Reviews
I've used Drive Genius ever since obtaining a copy through Other World Computing (machales.com), where they have bundled it with certain purchases for years. I've paid (~$40 each) for two or three major version upgrades, as Drive Genius includes Drive Pulse, an ongoing monitoring utility which has notified me a couple of times before a drive failed. Drive Genius is a full bundle of disk utilities (repair, verify, repartition, measure access speed), and in version 5 added malware protection. However, version 6 has moved to an $80/year/computer model, pricing them out of the home market. I'm certainly not willing to pay separately for each computer, and annually to boot! Version 5 is excellent (6 stars), and I'm dropping a star because v6 is unaffordable.