Free drive genius 2 software for mac

All modern hard drives have built-in software that put the drive to sleep for energy saving and wear & tear purposes. Most drives can take anywhere from 15-30 seconds to wake from a sleeping state.

If you have multiple drives, this problem is compounded. HDrive Awake will make sure that your hard drives do not go to sleep unless you want them to.

HDrive Awake app is very easy to use and only take a few seconds to set up. Once it is running, all your internal and external hard drives will be available to you with no sleep/wake cycles to slow you down!

Drive Monitor 4.1 is considered as an easy to use, high performance utility for the Macintosh that allows you to easily view the status of all of the volumes mounted on your desktop.

The main window shows the name and icon of each volume as well as their size, used space, free space, percent used, percent free and a "thermometer" graphic representation. It is possible to sort the display by any of these items. If a volume is locked, a padlock icon is shown to the left of the drive name. Nearly full volumes are hilighted in a used selectable color. The bottom of the window provides a summary of all of the drives shown.

Drive Health is tool that will help you check the health of your hard drive.

Know before your drive fails that there is a problem! Using a utility from the smartmontools project, this widget gathers and shows your hard drives vital stats and a thumbs up (or down!) on the overall health.

As far as I know, this only works with internal ATA hard drives (which nearly all Macs have).

Apple Hard Drive Update 2.0 is a mighty effective program that reduces certain infrequent noises made by 7200-rpm drives.

These drives shipped with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/Hard Drive Update.app). The updater will launch automatically when the installation is complete. New Hard Drive firmware will be: 0007APM2

Enhancements: Initial beta release

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later and a USB flash drive.

Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAIDs) allow safe and inexpensive, safe storage of important data using two (or more) hard disks - either internally or as Firewire drives. Apple delivers software for buidling mirrored software RAIDs with every copy of Mac OS X.

RAID Volumes continue to work even if one drive failes. However, the failed drive should be replaced ASAP. Without RAID Alert, those failures might go unnoticed!

RAID Alert informs you about any RAID systems status changes (esp. failures) via email, a notification dialog and alert sound. Try this feature-complete test version!