Anyone using Drive Genius 2?

[randomlinh]

Anyone use this software before? It's part of the MacUpdate Holiday bundle. This and Little snitch are the only two things I find useful from the pack. It looks interesting because it claims to do a better job at defragging (and explains OS X only handles smaller files, and doesn't optimize free space?) and can do non-destructive partitioning.

Not really sure it's all worth $50 even, but curious as to their claims mostly.

 

[Kmax82]

I believe HFS+ can do non destructive partitioning by default. When you are dealing with NTFS, and FAT32, is where you will have to destroy the partitions to rearrange space.

I grabbed the Promo for LittleSnitch, mainly, and figured I'd give some of the other software a try. I haven't tried DriveGenius, but I'll take a closer look at it.

 

[Tegeril]

Drive Genius works well, when I was doing IT in college, we would frequently use it to make a system that was fairly full bootcamp-able. It was the best, guaranteed to work way that we could get sufficient contiguous space to bootcamp a drive.

NTFS can be non-destructively resized with a variety of software.

 

[Kmax82]

Ok.. figured I was wrong.

 

[randomlinh]

I was aware HFS+ could do non-destructive, but it's not supported using Apple's tools (unless you're about to install bootcamp), right? Not that I need to, but the defragging caught me because I had always read that OS X handles stuff efficiently enough that it isn't really beneficial.