ProSoft Engineering has released Drive Genius, a US$99 suite of utilities for optimizing, repairing, rebuilding, testing, benchmarking, initializing, partitioning and duplicating hard drives. It can run integrity checks, rebuild and replace volume structures, fix permissions, read and display SMART diagnostic codes, defrag hard drives and scan their surfaces and fine tune drive sectors. In addition, Drive Genius offers tools for adding, deleting, hiding, expanding or shrinking partitions, as well as shredding data to make it unrecoverable. Mac OS X v10.2.x or higher is required.
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