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I looked at it fully this morning and it does work on external drives with this caveat: 'If you want to perform external drive diagnostics on OS X – currently there is only one option – you can install 3rd party kernel extension – SAT SMART Driver.

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Please note that this is a requirement of Mac OS X, and not DriveDx.'. In order to allow your Mac to diagnose external drives, you will need to install a special third party driver. It says: 'Mac OS X does not support diagnosing external drives using S.M.A.R.T. I had glanced at their page the other day. I want to retract my statement about Drive DX. I'm old, but I'm still learning.Īgain, thanks for the responses. I sort of did, but obviously there isn't a total consensus on all parameters (e.g.: heat). I *thought* I understood SMART until now. I can't even remember the last time I had a drive failure.Īs an FYI I'm almost 70 and IT was never my 'business' - I'm a retired business standards specialist (my website is elsmar dot com - I'm Marc).

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Other than the 12TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 failure in 2015 I haven't had a drive failure in many years. I had not realized that Softraid is not just monitoring my Thunderbay RAID drives, and that it apparently monitoring ALL my drives, so I'm a happy camper. I have a special temp/humidity controlled 'closet' with over 80 bare drives and a few more RAID boxes with backup data that companies drop off and pick up as needed. I keep off site backups for some local companies. All the rest are just storage which get written to and that's pretty much it. The old OWC 8TB Mercury Elite Pro Dual in RAID 5 is the only drive that is in constant daily use. I have a late 2012 iMac maxed out with an internal SSD that I have 3 16TB OWC Thunderbays in RAID 5 attached to, as well as 2 12TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2's (also in RAID 5), 2 external drive docks (each with 2 bays) and an older version of the OWC 8TB Mercury Elite Pro Dual (in RAID 5).

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Oh, and I do have a copy of DataRescue 4 (which I also got free from OWC a few years back) which is what I recovered the data from the problem OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 with back in 2015. I do run Diskwarrior on all attached drives once every 2 weeks. I'm still steeped in some of my old ways. It really isn't necessary in this day and age, but over the years it has 'saved' me several times. The only thing I DO keep up to date is DiskWarrior. I'm not a believer in any of the many utilities that make claims like 'will make your computer run faster!'.

But like I say - I had not used it before. While I think it's pretty useless it's not really fair to say it is just a defrag utility. Yes - All of these are spinning rust.Īctually Drive Genius has quite a few utilities of which defrag is only one. It can be done, technically, but won't actually do anything. And yes - I know defrag on an SSD is totally useless. I haven't run a defrag on a drive in - Well, at least 15 years or more. So much for Drive Genius (version 4).Īgain, I thank each of you for the - SMARTReporter says it is only for internal drives. Both Disk Utility and SoftRaid IDed the drive as 'failing'. It was, of course, the 'failing' drive that was still in the dock. A few hours later Softraid notified me of a failing drive. I left one of the 'failing' drives in the dock and got on with some other stuff. I guess it hadn't had time to 'check' the drives I took out of the old enclosure and formatted them and ran the the Drive Genius (version 4) utilities. Weird thing - When I bought 2 RAIDs from OWC (thunderbolt Thunderbays from OWC) I got Softraid free. So - I'll throw them all out and call it a day. Better to get a new Thunderbay if/when I actually need it. No way I want to invest in 4 drives (plus a spare or 2) to find out for sure. But - It requires all drives to be from the same manufacturer, same drive model and even the same firmware which I didn't know when I bought it. It is probable that the old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 hardware RAID box is OK. No reason to take a chance since the entire lot is suspect.ĥ. That said I'm not sure I want to trust the 2 'good' drives for anything. They were identical drives from the same lot so there was probably a manufacturing issue in that lot. I guess I can see 2 drives failing at the same time. It also showed 2 drives failing but mounted and I got all my data off of them and onto a new RAID enclosure I bought.Ĥ. I had two identical RAID boxes so I took out the drives from the failed RAID and put them in an identical enclosure. It was weird when the RAID failed and refused to even mount.

I had not used it before, but figured since I had it I'd check it out.ģ.

#Disk warrior vs drive genius for free

I got Drive Genius (version 4) for free when I bought the drive so no money lost. I just put it in a closet and was trying to decide what to do with it and the drives this week.Ģ. The drives are from 2011 but were only used for storage.