The performance of your Mac can be slowed by a variety of factors, including large duplicate documents and other types of unnecessary files, disk failures, data fragmentation, and so on. Drive Genius is a simple Mac app that will help you clean your drive , speed up your mac and make the most use of the available space.
Drive Genius for Mac gives you faster performance from your Mac while also protecting it. The award-winning and improved DrivePulse feature alerts you to hard drive issues before they become major problems. Optimized for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, top features like Defrag and DriveSlim will help keep your Mac running fast. The all-new BootWell tool lets you create a special bootable secondary drive to Defrag or Repair your main hard drive. You can also personalize and organize your Mac hard drive icons with IconGenius.
If you need to test or benchmark your Mac, Drive Genius has a bench test and surface scan feature that allows you to scan for bad sectors that are causing problems. Finally, there’s also a handy shredding tool for destroying files and documents that contain sensitive data.
Pros And Cons
| Pros | Cons |
| Quick and comprehensive | Very few preferences |
| Lots of different tools | Intel Macs only |
| Superb animated interface | |
| Scans bad sectors |
System Requirements
| Operating System | Mac OS 10.12 and higher version |
Drive Genius To Speed Up Your Mac System Features
- BootWell: Drive Genius’ NEW BootWell™ technology creates a special secondary startup drive that can be used to maintain or repair your main startup drive.
- Defragment: Optimize your drive for maximum performance. Defragment will re-organize each file into a contiguous area of your drive allowing your computer to perform less work while retrieving your files.
- Repartition: Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your Mac hard drive more efficiently. Repartition enables you to manage (shrink, expand, shift, delete, hide, reveal or customize) partitions (volumes) on your hard drives. Unlike traditional methods of backing up, erasing and repartitioning the drive, Drive Genius for macOS allows you to expand or shrink partitions without erasing them.
- Clone: Automatically determines how your drive is configured, duplicates that configuration to the new drive and then performs the most efficient data copy possible.
- Physical Check: Checks a drive for hardware related problems that may result from a damaged drive, a bad cable, or a bad connection.
- Find Duplicates: Locates duplicate files and replaces those duplicates with an alias. Find Duplicates is powered by the award-winning technology of DriveSlim®./
- Find Large Files: Powered by DriveSlim® – Large File Search finds very large files that are taking up space on your hard drive. This could be large video file that came preloaded on your Mac or some funny email attachment someone sent you. It is likely that you are not even aware of these files and Large File Search helps you keep tabs on what files are on your hard drive, allowing you to mark and delete the ones you no longer need.
- IconGenius™: Set a custom icon for a drive or folder. Personalize and make drive identification easier with fun, useful and cool icons.
- Initialize: The Initialize utility prepares new drives, or erases old drives, for use with OS X. Drives can optionally be initialized for use with Windows/Camera cards or for use with legacy PowerPC macs.
- Speed Up Performance: Measures the optimal raw performance of your drive since it was last connected to your computer.
- Instant Drive Pulse: Runs the most common DrivePulse® tests and provides a pass/fail status for the drive.
- Active Files: Active Files alerts you to files that are in use that may prevent you from shutting down your Mac or ejecting a drive. No more guesswork.
- Consistency Check: Checks for possible file and folder corruption on formatted drives. Detecting and repairing any errors can help prevent data loss.
- Repair: Can repair most kinds of logical file and folder errors on a drive to prevent future critical problems and potential data loss.
- Rebuild: In circumstances where a file name is lost, the data is still there, but not accessible, Rebuild may be able to list lost file names to the file data again.
- Fix Permissions: Permission inconsistencies can result from bad application installers and lead to applications failing to open or randomly crashing.
- Secure Erase: Overwrites all data using one of five secure patterns designed to make data recovery near impossible, it then creates a newly formatted drive or deletes files and folders.
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Drive Genius For Mac FAQs
Can I Recover Files That I Accidentally Deleted, Or From A Reformatted Hard Drive?
Yes, recovery is possible in these cases however typically the original filenames and folder structure will not be recoverable. This data, as well as data lost from reformatting can be found in the ‘Reconstructed Files’ folder in the results of a Deep Scan where it will be organized by file type.
What Is A Recovery Drive?
A Recovery Drive is a special startup drive that can be created through the Data Rescue software on your own device. This will allow you to recover from a non-booting internal drive, or a boot drive on macOS 10.13.
What Is A Clone?
The purpose of the Data Rescue cloning function is to copy the raw data of a drive or volume to another drive or volume, so that the copy may be scanned and recovered from, reducing the wear-and-tear on the original hard drive.
How To Add A File To Scan On Mac?
Data Rescue 5 has the ability to scan disk images. You can either use the cloning process in Data Rescue, or a 3rd party software to make a disk image.
Step 1
Go to the File → Add File to Scan drop-down menu option. In the example below, the General USB Flash Disk was cloned to a disk image.
Step 2
After the new popup window appears, navigate to wherever you have saved your disk image file, select it, and press ‘Open’ in the lower right of the window.
Step 3:
The disk image will now appear under the list of source drives available for scanning. You can select the disk image and press ‘Next’ to move to the scan type selection screen and begin your scan.
How To Create A Recovery Drive?
To create a Recovery Drive, follow these steps:
Step 1: From the Welcome screen click on the ‘Create Recovery Drive’ menu option.
Step 2: Highlight the device and press ‘Start’ in the lower right to create the Recovery Drive. Confirm that the device will be overwritten to continue.
Step 3: To boot into the Data Rescue Recovery Drive, restart your computer while holding the Option key. Once a list of drives appear you can release the Option key and select the recovery drive which will be named ‘Data Rescue’.
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- DaisyDisk
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What’s New In This Last Version
New Changes
- Malware Scan is free to all users.
- Update malware scan engine to version 0.103.2.
- Support [Set Icon] / [Remove Icon] on APFS startup drive.
- Support Secure Erase with Initialization on APFS drives.
- Show “Complete” info after Secure Erase and Malware Scan.
- Exclude AppleAPFSMedia drives without user volumes from UI.
- Exclude Apple M1 system volumes from UI (“ISC”, “Recovery”).
Fix Bugs
- Fix System Information window layout on Big Sur.
- Fix corrupt/garbled text in help popups on Big Sur.
- Fix malware database not updating (mirror-sync issue).
- Fix application does not restart during install.
- Fix invalid info after adding/removing volumes.
Drive Genius Software For Mac Overview
Technical Specification
| Version | 6.2.1 |
| File Size | 40 MB |
| Languages | English |
| License | Free Trial |
| Developer | Prosoft Engineering, Inc. |
Conclusion
Drive Genius is the best software that used to speed up your system with some attractive features like automate your malware protection, and protect your investment from any threat.