Everyone wants to have
good Mac utilities installed in their system to make it work
efficient & to make it free from disasters like hard drive
failure and corruption. For these reasons you may need tools like
speedup software, Defragmentar, Drive cloning utility, partition
manager, etc. I am using a software that that has all these utilities
and many others within itself. So basically this software is like a
bundle of many system utilities that helps to improve my OS X
performance and keep system free from the unwanted events like disk
failure, corruption etc. This product i.e. Stellar's
drive toolbox is a multi-tasking Mac software that can
perform several essential functions. Other than speeding up Mac,
cloning a Mac, drive defrag, wipe, surface scan, etc. it has many
other functionalities:
Different Features
of this software are:
- Speedup Mac:
This features enables you
to make your Mac operate faster by removing cache, language files,
duplicate files, widgets, unused applications, etc. So by this feature
Mac can be make work faster.
- Cloning your drive:
With
the help of this utility, a clone i.e. an exact replica of your hard
drive can be made and you can use this clone image in case of data
loss due to any media crash. Cloning your hard drive will help you to
recover your data using the cloned image in situation of hard drive
failure or crash.
- Wiping data:
With
this feature you can delete or format data, which is beyond the scope
of data recovery. After wiping, no one can recover & access the
data which makes you feel safe about data security.
- Partititon Manager:
Partition
manager will allow you to add, resize a partition on your drive,
delete partition, create partition, hide partition. Complete
Do-It-Yourself utility.
- Defragmantation of Drive:
By
doing drive defragmentation you can collect data stored at different
locations and store this data in contigous locations. This will
improve your system performance by removing the fragmented data.
So
apart from the above mentioned features of this software you can also
find many other features in this software like:
- Drive initialize:
This
feature will help you to initialize your raw Mac hard drive. With
this you can choose the required patitioning scheme like GUID, Apple
Partition Map, MBR for your Mac hard drive.
- Volume Repair:
Volume
repair feature will help you to repair corrupted or damaged volume.
So you can also repair your hard drive using this software.
- Surface scan:
Surface
scan is a very important utility of this software. Surface scan will
scan your hard drive block by block and will give you the information
about the exact situation of your hard drive.
- Raw data editor:
Raw
data editor will allow you to repair minor corruption by making
changes in the file structure of the hard drive.
- Shield:
Shield
utility of this software automatically keeps backup image of your Mac
hard drive and that can help in recovering deleted files.
- Drive stats:
Drive
stats gives you information about your Mac like Drive name, Type of
file system, Drive size, No.of volume, etc.
- Drive performance:
This
tool will allow you to examine your system performance like
processing speed, etc.
With
all these features you will also get one extra bonus
utility Data Encryptor.
With this utility you can save your data from unauthorized access by
encypting data and hiding useful information. So in my opinion,
inspite of buying a specific software you must go for this combined
software tool which is available at reasonably $99. So my review is,
Stellar's Drive Toolbox is equipped with so many features & all
these utilities keeps Mac safe and efficient to work.