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Verify and/or correct permissions settings on a drive.

Zero out a drive or unused portions of a drive.

Partition, format, or repartition a drive.

It has a command line version named 'diskutil' that many people are not aware of. 7, 2014 by giffut he has a more detailed write up.ĭisk Utility, diskutil - Disk Utility is the tool provided with OS X to configure drives and volumes, and do limited repair work on drives. I'm not familiar with this tool, but if you follow the thread down to the post dated Feb.

Find and fix bad disk sectors on your Mac.

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Product Descriptions (alphabetical order)ĭisk Tools Pro - This is a multifunctional tool that is advertised as doing the following: Scannerz with Phoenix and FSE-Lite, Scannerz Lite The tools in the list above can be broken down as follows: My observation has been that the General or Multi-Purpose Tools do a (hopefully!) decent job of doing many different things, whereas those categorized as Specific Tools focus on doing a limited number of tasks, but do it above and beyond what the general purpose tools have to offer. Tools can be broken down into two classes: Scannerz with Phoenix and FSE-Lite ($39.95) SMARTReporter ($4.95 for commercial version, but an older version is FREE) SmartReporter ($4.95, but FREE version exists)

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This was updated on 6/27/13 because they added a product called 'Phoenix' to the package, with a second update on 8/15/13 because they added another product called 'Performance Probe' to it. Scannerz with Phoenix and FSE-Lite, Scannerz Lite ($39.95, $21.95 respectively) PRODUCTS AND LINKS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (PRICE):ĭisk Utility, diskutil (FREE, comes with OS) The purpose is to generally describe what the tools do. Additionally, almost all of the tools are different from one another, although some may have overlapping functionality. The purpose of this thread is **not** to review them, because everyone will have a different idea about what's good and bad. Please feel free to chime in with other tools and/or features for any of the tools I've listed that I might have missed.

There are some similar lists on the web and even in different threads on this site, but they seem dated, and a lot of the tools in those reviews have been updated and enhanced. This doesn't mean there aren't other tools out there, and I'm hoping that we can put together a list of drive tools, and maybe in a different thread, a list of hardware testing tools. This list is not complete because I'm only listing products that I'm either familiar with and/or generally have a good reputation. I'm putting together a list of drive testing and repair tools for reference.