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iPartition

iPartition

Disk partitioning without initializing or reformatting.

Version:  3.2.0

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$50? Are they kidding? A tad pricey for something I might use once a year!

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Contributed by: Kudrabar Friday, February 20 2009 @ 09:56 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

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.   

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No, we're not kidding, and it isn't "a tad pricey" - Alastair_Houghton_882

It isn't about how often you would use it --- it's about the amount of work we have to put in to make it work, to keep it working and so on. People sometimes think that because iPartition has a simple user interface, the code behind it must be simple; well, let me tell you, it isn't. We don't just run diskutil in the background as some people erroneously assume; there are hundreds of thousands of lines of code involved, including nearly complete implementations of HFS+, NTFS and FAT, representing many many-years of effort on our part.

I'll also point out that you wouldn't walk into a DIY store and bemoan the cost of table saws because you only want to use one occasionally and so you think they should sell it to you for 50 cents, right? So why do it with software? It doesn't make sense.

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