Drive Genius is an OS X utility designed to provide unsurpassed storage management.

Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Drive Genius is packed with powerful tools such as a drive optimizer, a comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and rebuilding volumes, plus excellent testing capabilities with media surface scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking.

It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of Defense’s standard. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives swiftly.

Last but not least, Drive Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving of volumes without reformatting, and sports a sector editing tool to modify the data on any sector of the drive -- powerful features that will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts.

Features:

- Duplicate - Fast and easy volume or entire drive cloning.
- Integrity Check - Find problems before they find you with these comprehensive hardware verification tests
- Repair - Quickly fix corruption on OS X volume structures to get your damaged drive up and running fast
- Rebuild - Rebuild and replace OS X volume structures to regain access to files that have become lost or hidden
- Verify - Check OS X volume structures for possible corruption
- Fix Permissions - Reset OS X boot volume permissions to improve application performance and compatibility
- SMART Status - Read and display SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures
- Defragment - Get the most speed and efficiency possible by Optimizing your OS X volumes
- Benchtest - Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons to other common configurations
- Surface Scan - Verify your hard drive’s reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive read verification tests for any drive or OS X volume
- Sector Editor - Fine tune all aspects of your system with direct, advanced byte viewing and editing of all data on your drives, volumes and files (for expert users only)
- Partition - Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your data more efficiently
- Shred - Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant (5220.22 - m) secure erase. Removes all traces of data from free space and deleted files on any device or OS X volume
- Details - In-depth report of specifications and space utilization of all devices and OS X volumes
- Initialize - Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new hard drives for use on your computer.

What's New:

- An Intel-based Macintosh running 10.5.3 or later is required.
- DrivePulse optionally monitors the overall health of your drives in the background, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems.
- Runs as a 64-bit application on 10.6 or later with a compatible 64-bit processor.
- Enhanced Defrag provides even better defragmentation of files and presents more fragmentation information in a new UI.
- Includes a System Service to securely erase files, folders or volumes from any application (as part of DrivePulse).
- E-mail notifications can be sent when long-running tasks complete and you are away from your computer.
- Drives formatted with Bootcamp support are supported by Repartition. Windows volumes can be moved, but not resized.
- Scan supports realtime bad-block sparing and an extended block verification test that stress tests the read and write validity of every block.
- Scan can perform a "live" block verification of the boot disk/volume.
- Repair can perform a "live" file system verification of the boot volume.
- Hardware based RAID and Apple's software RAID are supported. Software RAID support is limited; the physical drives belonging to the RAID set cannot be used with most tools. The logical RAID volume though is fully supported by all tools. Please note that SoftRAID is not supported.
- Drive, volume and file sizes are displayed to match the OS (base 10 on 10.6+ and base 2 on 10.5.x).
- DriveSlim ignores files in the Trash.