Drive Genius, who uses it, is it worth it?

icedbullet · 23 Sep 2010 at 01:12

Hey all

I had a play around with drive genius 3.0 on a friends macbook pro. It said his files were 36% fragmented, but he needed to use a boot disk to initiate the defrag. Then he went about looking for his disk which he misplaced...

...It all seemed like a lot of faff to me. I mean it does have some useful features but if you misplace your disk it becomes pretty much useless. Also I was under the impression that the Mac filesystem didn't require a defrag, so why is drive genius reporting his filesystem is fragmented at 36%?

Does anyone else us this program and if so, do they think its worth buying?

SeraphX · 23 Sep 2010 at 15:04

dont mess about with defragging a mac hard drive, mac uses the mac os x journaled for a reason, it will NEVER need defragging

theheyes · 23 Sep 2010 at 17:50

icedbullet said:
why is drive genius reporting his filesystem is fragmented at 36%?

To get you to buy the product. I think the poster above meant HFS+. By and large OSX will keep fragmentation low on its own and you don't need 3rd party tools.

icedbullet · 24 Sep 2010 at 07:08

Thanks for the replies guys.

I'm used to tinkering around using windows so all this "it looks after itself" takes some getting used to. I read that this program is used at the genius bar at apple stores with the procare package for mac's, so I assumed it may actually be useful?

iraiguana · 24 Sep 2010 at 13:02

My mac is two and half years old... never needed to defrag it. I did recently wipe it for installing snow leopard, but otherwise leave it be.

theheyes · 25 Sep 2010 at 13:25

icedbullet said:
Thanks for the replies guys.

I'm used to tinkering around using windows so all this "it looks after itself" takes some getting used to. I read that this program is used at the genius bar at apple stores with the procare package for mac's, so I assumed it may actually be useful?

Even Windows doesn't need tinkering with these days. It's the knowitalls with a list of optimization apps as long as my arm that cause half the problems.

I find it unlikely that they would use this in Apple stores, but not having worked there I can't say for sure.