DrivePulse may save your drive one day

DrivePulse™ - a great feature of Drive Genius 3.

A great Drive Genius 3 feature that just doesn’t get as much credit as it should is DrivePulse. DrivePulse™, a utility to automatically monitor the health of your hard drives and volumes from the comfort of your desktop. DrivePulse™ will check for fragmentation, volume errors, and physical issues on your hard drives. This is a low resource process that will quickly test your hard drives when the computer is idle. When DrivePulse™ is on, the DrivePulse™ icon will appear in the top menu bar to quickly view the status of any connected hard drives or volumes. DrivePulse™ will notify you with a prompt if there are any issues with your hard drives. If you are experiencing S.M.A.R.T. Status problems, large amounts of fragmentation, or issues with your volume catalog, a prompt will inform you to take action on your hard drive. DrivePulse runs two distinct, fast tests once per day, and another test once per week– The daily tests take only 10-20 seconds each and are run only once per day, when the computer is idle. If you return to the computer during a test, it is suspended. You will not see any performance change due to these discreet tests being run. The weekly test follows the same rules, ensuring no system performance changes while running. The weekly test only takes a few seconds as well-

Since this feature was introduced in Drive Genius 3, there have been numerous examples provided by customers

that mention how DrivePulse helped save their data before a failure.
In one case, DrivePulse alerted a customer that their Time Capsule had multiple bad blocks on it and they were able to get a replacement from Apple right before the warranty expired. Drive Genius 3 does not support Time Capsule , however DrivePulse was able to at detect the issue and alert the customer before a failure or dataloss occurred. Drive Genius 3 can be a great way to maintain, optimize and prevent many drive issues before they impact your data.

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Mike Fiato

Technical Support at Prosoft Engineering Inc.

I have been working for Prosoft Engineering for 4 years by supporting our Mac & PC users with hard drive utilities and data recovery applications. My focus is continually updating our award-wining products with new versions, by listening to our customers and researching market conditions. I am seasoned high tech professional with 10 plus years of experience in hardware and software as a Technical Support Manager, Field Application Engineer and Product Manager. Specializing in Mac & PC workstation hardware/software support, performance computing, benchmarking, technical marketing and product sales training. I have attended numerous trade shows, provided technical onsite training , supported Tier 1 & 2 OEM's and have submitted performance workstations to SPEC.org for benchmarking verification results. My hands on approach has kept my experience diverse and relevant to the markets I support directly over the years. In addition to my experience listed I genuinely have a special interest in technical trends, advances in mass storage, data recovery, graphics cards and mobile computing. When I have time and can schedule it, I like to go low tech and visit the outdoors, lakes, rivers and oceans to fish for variety of species. I also enjoy traveling, remodeling my house, wood working and online FPS games. Having multiple hobbies is great way to disconnect from work and the everyday schedule to unwind and relax.

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