Brand New Features in Drive Genius 3

DrivePulse®

Monitors the overall health of your drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems. > More

64-bit

Runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS 10.6 or later with a compatible 64-bit processor.

Enhanced Defrag

Provides even better defragmentation of your files and even more fragmentation information in a new user interface.
> What is fragmentation?
> Technical info on defragmentation

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 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 tasks complete and you are away from your computer.
   
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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.