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Xtra Drives Icons
Hard drive icon set with nature surface designs. more>>
Apple Hard Drive Update 2.0
Apple Hard Drive Update is a mighty effective program that reduces certain infrequent noises made by 7200-rpm drives. more>>
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
Apple Hard Drive Updater OS9 1.0
Apple Hard Drive Update 1 improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped in certain Power Mac G4 computers, including: Power Mac G4 Cube Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) more>> Apple Hard Drive Update 1 improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped in certain Power Mac G4 computers, including:
- Power Mac G4 Cube
- Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)
- Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)
- Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
- Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver)
Important: It is strongly recommended that you back up the data on your hard drives to an external drive or removable media before running this update. Do not reset, shut down, or turn off power to your computer while updating the firmware. If an error occurs during the update process, your hard drive(s) may become unusable. In that case, all data on the drive(s) would be lost.
Mac OS 9.1 or later.
Apple Hard Drive Update X 1.0
Apple Hard Drive Update X - Improve the longevity of some hard drives more>>
Most drives do not need this update. You can check the drives in your computer by running this update. If an update is needed, you will be given a chance to quit and perform backup before continuing with the update.
Apple Hard Drive Update G4 1.0
The Hard Drive Update 1 improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped in certain Power Mac G4 computers, including: Power Mac G4 Cube Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) more>> The Hard Drive Update 1 improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped in certain Power Mac G4 computers, including:
Power Mac G4 Cube
Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)
Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)
Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver)
Most drives do not need this update. You can check the drives in your computer by running this update. If an update is needed, you will be given a chance to quit and perform backup before continuing with the update.
Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later.
Apple Hard Drive Update Classic 1.0
Apple Hard Drive Update Classic - Improve the longevity of some hard drives more>>
Most drives do not need this update. You can check the drives in your computer by running this update. If the update is needed, a message will appear which says that "one or more hard drives in your system need updated firmware. " You will be allowed to quit (cancel) at this point in order to complete backup prior to the actual update.
VST USB Hard Drive 1.0.1
VST USB Hard Drive - driver for the USB hard drive more>>
This driver provides support for ATA and ATAPI storage devices using the ISD725, ISD200 or ISD300 USB Bridge chips.
HDrive Awake .2
HDrive Awake will make sure that your hard drives do not go to sleep unless you want them to more>>
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!
Apple NetBoot Drive Unmounter 1.1
Apple NetBoot Drive Unmounter is a feature-rich and trustworthy extension that unmounts the hard drive in a NetBoot client machine. more>>
Apple NetBoot Drive Unmounter 1.1 is a feature-rich and trustworthy extension that unmounts the hard drive in a NetBoot client machine. The NetBoot Drive Unmounter version 1.1 is a System Extension, and needs to be placed in the System Folder of the NetBoot image. Use the NetBoot Desktop Admin utility, version 1.1.1, to install this extension.

OhMy! Cyclop Mac Drives 1.0
A set of 6 amazing 3D icons for you hard drive as a complement of the recently released OhMy! Cyclop for OSX. more>>
This set contains the following icons: Leopard Drive, Yellow Drive, Red Drive, Green Drive, Blue Drive and Black Drive.
Drive Health 1.0 rc
Drive Health is a widget designed to check the health of your hard drive more>>
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).
SMARTReporter 2.4.1
SMARTReporter delivers a fully functional utility which is designed to warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! more>>
SMARTReporter 2.4.1 delivers a fully functional utility which is designed to warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk drive problems.
SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.
Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn't mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors - it's just a very valuable indicator.
Enhancements:
- Fix a issue with the new e-mail sending through Mail.app would not work with multiple recipients
- Fix a problem with the french localization (thanks to Amalrik Dumas)
- Some smaller fixes and additions
Download Entire Site 1.0
Download Entire Site - Mirror website on your hard drive more>>
A surrounding folder named with the web-sites domain name will be created within the chosen location. Non-relative links will be converted into relative ones by default.
Completly freeware.
World of Aqua: Rev 2 Drives
14 sleek hard drive icons. more>>
Sonnet Tempo ATA133 Large Drive Support X
Sonnet Tempo ATA133 Large Drive Support X enable Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.1.4 to support high capacity (more than 137 GB) hard drives connected to the Tempo ATA133, Tempo HD, and Tempo Trio more>> Sonnet Tempo ATA133 Large Drive Support X enable Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.1.4 to support high capacity (more than 137 GB) hard drives connected to the Tempo ATA133, Tempo HD, and Tempo Trio. Please note, you will not be able to boot from these drives at this time; the next major revision to Mac OS X (Version 10.2) is expected to add full support for these drives.
Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.1.4, Sonnet Tempo ATA133 drive.