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Overview

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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?

Try Drive Genius 3, the best hard drive utility on the Mac platform – DrivePulse®, Enhanced Defrag, DriveSlim™, Enhanced Repartition are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 3.

Drive Genius 3 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 drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems, RAID Support, Email Notifications, and has enhanced previous features including Defrag, Repartition and Scan from version 2.

Drive Genius 3 is the best disk 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 drive with Drive Genius 3. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!*

Traditionally, 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 drives

Defragging is an important part of routine computer maintenance. Defragging moves associated files together, clears out the free space between files and consolidates the free space at the end of the drive.

When someone asks, "I need to speed up my Mac. What should I do?" one answer would be to clean up the drive with a defragmentation routine. Drive Genius 3's defrag tool is the number one selling, most-used 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 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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DrivePulse®

DrivePulse® will monitor the health of your hard drive daily when your computer is idle to quickly check for errors, fragmentation, or bad blocks. When the computer is idle for five minutes, DrivePulse® will perform quick tests to check the health of the hard drive.

Physical problems

DrivePulse® performs a Scan on a disk to search for bad blocks on the hard drive ensuring the physical integrity of the device. DrivePulse® is scheduled to Scan once a week, which takes about an hour to complete and will pause its progress when the computer is active again.

Volume consistency problems

DrivePulse® performs a Verify on the volume to assess the integrity of the catalog and directory structures. DrivePulse® is scheduled to perform a Volume verification once a day, which takes about 2 minutes to complete.

Volume fragmentation

DrivePulse® scans the volume catalog and its files to determine the amount of fragmentation. DrivePulse® is scheduled to check the fragmentation status once a week, which takes about 10 seconds to complete.

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Defrag

Fragmentation occurs on a hard drive when there is not enough free space to continuously write the file on the platters of the hard drive.

As files are created, written, and deleted on the hard drive, there is less consecutive free space to write a complete file. This affects all files including system files and application files which can lead to slow boot times and slow application launches.

Mac OS X automatically reduces the potential for fragmentation for files that meet specific conditions, but may not handle larger files that still cause slow application launches and slow boot times.

The Defrag feature in Drive Genius 3 reorganizes the fragmented pieces of all files and compacts their content into one contiguous block for faster access times. Reorganizing the files into one continuous block improves access time for the file to be opened. Compacting the files allows new files to be written onto the hard drive without data fragmentation.

Defragmenting your drives will lead to faster boot time, faster application launches, and faster access to your large media files.