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horrible UI 
- Version: 2.1, 9/30/2008 07:37PM PST
frodo5641
User interface is horrible even on Quad G5 animations are slow, not precise and not smooth at all.
Genius Bah - Version: 2.1, 9/23/2008 11:09PM PST
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backpacker-1
Tools of this type invariably advise having a recent backup ready, just in case something goes awry during defragging or re-partitioning. With cost of storage dropping and interface speeds increasing, just cloning that backup increasingly becomes a viable alternative to using such tools.
Maybe in recognition of this, drive-restore is found in iDefrag/iPartition to offset the risk of power-cutoff etc.. I mean, if it's risky, I may as well risk nothing more than an easy clone.
Another very useful feature missing from Drive Genius 2.x is partition table/scheme conversion, particularly when there's still a lot of switching going on between APM and GUID schemes etc. as Intel Mac usage grows.
Features like shredding, disk-checking/repairing, intializing, iconizing can easily be found elsewhere, but serious defragging and repartitioning tools are rather rare.
Maybe in recognition of this, drive-restore is found in iDefrag/iPartition to offset the risk of power-cutoff etc.. I mean, if it's risky, I may as well risk nothing more than an easy clone.
Another very useful feature missing from Drive Genius 2.x is partition table/scheme conversion, particularly when there's still a lot of switching going on between APM and GUID schemes etc. as Intel Mac usage grows.
Features like shredding, disk-checking/repairing, intializing, iconizing can easily be found elsewhere, but serious defragging and repartitioning tools are rather rare.
I was having strange behaviour with my mac mini that pointed to a potential HD issue. I booted from the DriveGenius DVD and ran a defrag process after I saw my drive was heavily fragmented. The process failed twice with a disk corruption error. I ran fsck and Disk Utility both of which said the volume was OK. I emailed prosoft engineering and got a rapid response suggesting i run the Drive Genius scan utility for bad blocks. Sure enough, there were several bad blocks on my drive that were not picked up by fsck -fy or apple's disk utility. I was then able to CCC the drive and reformat it, after which my problems stopped.
Obviously Drive Genius can detect problems where other utilities do not, so along with the excellent support it gets my recommendation as an indispensable tool.