1. Drive Genius 4 gives you faster performance from your Mac while also protecting it. The award-winning and improved DrivePulse feature alerts you to hard drive issues before they become major problems. Optimized for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, top features like Defrag and DriveSlim will help keep your Mac running fast. The all-new BootWell tool lets you create a special bootable secondary drive to Defrag or Repair your main hard drive. You can also personalize and organize your Mac hard drive icons with IconGenius.
  3. What's New
  4. Version 4.0:
  5. Now requires OS X 10.8.3 or later running on a 64-bit Intel processor
  6. Enhanced and simplified interface that allows for running utilities on multiple drives simultaneously, and queuing multiple utility runs on a single drive.
  7. Full support for Fusion and FileVault 2 drives.
  8. Full support for Retina displays.
  9. Using BootWell technology, Drive Genius can create small recovery drives from your existing OS X startup drive. Recovery drives can be used as emergency startup drives and are needed to perform certain operations on the main startup drive.
  10. Clone can copy the startup drive (any in-use drive in fact) without the need to restart, and can copy from a larger drive to a smaller drive.
  11. New Instant DrivePulse utility that runs DrivePulse tests for the most common set of drive problems and presents a pass/fail status.
  12. New Icon Genius utility to set a custom icon for drives and folders from any of several hundred custom-designed icons.
  13. New Active Files utility to show the files/folders on a drive that are in use by applications.
  14. Enhanced RAID support, including support for SoftRAID.
  15. Faster detection of hardware issues in Physical Check and Clone.
  16. DrivePulse uses a new heuristic engine based on history error sampling to notify you of drives that may need replacement before they actually stop working.
  17. DrivePulse monitors the system for changes to items that automatically open during login and notifies you when a change occurs. This is a common avenue for malware to insert itself into the system.
  18. In conjunction with login item monitoring, DrivePulse monitors the System malware database for updates.
  19. DrivePulse monitors drives for low free space and notifies you when free space is running low.
  20. DrivePulse prevents drives from sleeping while your computer is in use. This prevents applications from hanging while waiting for a sleeping disk to wake. When you leave your computer, drives are allowed to sleep normally.
  21. DrivePulse events can be copied from the viewer to the system clipboard for importing into another application.
  22. Enhanced for OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
  23. Drive Genius and DrivePulse integrate with Notification Center in OS X 10.8 and later.
  24. Drive Genius and DrivePulse ignore the following media: read-only disk images from local storage, all disk images from network storage, optical media, RAM disks, and iPods.
  25. Verify Preferences now ignores specific files that are known to not contain preference data; even though they claim to be preference files