According to many reports from DriveDx users and our own investigation – iStat Menus v6.2 breaks S.M.A.R.T. support in macOS for non-NVMe internal drives. Be aware! As a result, DriveDx and any other S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools are unable to perform diagnostic of internal drives. Note: some users report that previous...
DriveDx v1.8.1 is out! Users “check for updates”. What’s new: Fixed crash when sending email via some SMTP servers (like “smtp.outlook.com”) and port 587 when “Use encryption (SSL/TLS)” option is off, Added support of more detailed error messages from SMTP servers, Improved support of “macOS Purgeable...
Our product DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #715 . At time = 00:54:03 “Brent-HDD (Fusion Drive) Issues”. Thanks Mac Geek Gab team!
We are fixed the strange issue with the redirect from our website, it looks like the problem was related to one WordPress plug-in, need time to investigate its code and contact to its developer. Thanks to all our users who reported this problem!
DriveDx v1.8.0 is out! Users “check for updates”. What’s new: Supported more than 100 new SSD models from Apple, Samsung, Micron/Crucial, SanDisk, Toshiba, SK Hynix, Plextor, Corsair, Transcend, Kingston, etc! Improved drive temperature monitoring. To less confuse users by “temperature indicators with failing/failed...
DriveDx v1.7.0 is out! Users “check for updates”. Lots of new features and improvements. This is our special Christmas and New Year Gift to all users of DriveDx! What’s new: Periodic email report at a user-specified time Notifications via macOS Notification Center on macOS 10.12+ Support for new LaCie HDDs Support...
DriveDx is recommended by Popular Science magazine in the article “Five signs your laptop is in trouble”. The useful article that contains tips how to keep an eye on your computer pre-fail symptoms and how you can quickly diagnose and fix them.
DriveDx v1.6.0 is out! Users “check for updates”. This is the big update with lots of new features and improvements. DriveDx now supports NVMe SSDs. What’s new: Clipboard support, user can copy (right-click) drive general info fields (serial number, model, size, volume names, etc.) Imporved compatibility with...
DriveDx v1.5.1 is out! Users “check for updates”. What’s new: fixed crash on some MacPros with many drives, improved support of SandDisk Ultra II SSDs. Full change log (release notes) is here.
DriveDx v1.5.0 is out! Finally :-). What’s new: improved macOS Sierra (10.12) support, improved email report sending via Apple Mail, improved drive free space reporting, improved diagnostic algorithms and heuristics, improved support of recent Seagate HDDs, improved support of recent Western Digital (WD) HDDs, app...