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 iPartition - 1.5.5disk partitioning without initializing/reformatting |
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.5.5: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (3.5) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (3.0) |
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plz - Version: 3.1.4, 10/8/2009 10:05PM PST
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melusina.hanmir.com
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Price - Version: 3.1.1, 2/21/2009 02:58PM PST
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WhiteDog
I expect the market will determine if iPartition is overpriced. In any case, I wouldn't use a re-partitioning app - not even Disk Utility, which can do some of this in Leopard - without backing up first. Re-partitioning a drive with data on it is perhaps the most risky operation you can perform on a hard drive. One little hiccup and all your data is toast. That said, iPartition does offer a unique feature set that may be useful to some people. Whether they can afford it is another matter. These days, with the economy in the tank, I suspect many people will be spending less on software than they did a year or two ago. iPartition's price point is definitely not in tune with the times.
$50? Are they kidding? A tad pricey for something I might use once a year! - Version: 3.1.1, 2/20/2009 09:56PM PST
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Kudrabar
Isn't this app seriously overpriced? This 2-trick pony's (Coriolis System's) other trick -- iDefrag -- is also overpriced at $35. Ignoring for a moment the very well documented argument that defragmentation is quite unnecessary on an OSX startup disk unless you're constantly adding and deleting really giant files, I will grant that iDefrag works quite well. But it too is something I might use just once or twice a year. And at a cost of $35, I'd rather defrag my Mac manually by simply backing it up to a Firewire drive (which the Finder does contiguously -- without any fragmentation), and then restoring the backed-up data back to my startup disk -- again done contiguously. When I perform the backup to Firewire drive I can either backup just my user-created files using the Finder, or I can backup the whole volume using one of the many free/donate/shareware backup apps that can clone a startup disk. The absolutely fabulous and uncrippled donationware app (they ask for a $10 donation, but app is fully functional without it) Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.3 makes it very easy (and it's a great backup app too, as every Macevangelist, blogger, and magazine dedicated to Apple products agrees). Other very good ones are Synk Backup ($25), Synk Standard or Pro, and SuperDuper! ($27.95).
If $35 for a defragging app is excessive, then $50 for on-the-fly disk partitioning is surely more excessive -- unless you're a system admin. who does a ridiculous amount of on-the-fly disk partitioning, and I've never met such a person.
If $35 for a defragging app is excessive, then $50 for on-the-fly disk partitioning is surely more excessive -- unless you're a system admin. who does a ridiculous amount of on-the-fly disk partitioning, and I've never met such a person.
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- No, we're not kidding, and it isn't "a tad pricey"
