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Our Website Under Attack: About the "429 Too Many Requests" ErrorOctober 30, 2026 · Maintenance, Website
Throughout October, many visitors browsing our website may have occasionally encountered a "429 Too Many Requests" error. For over a month now, our site has...
DriveDx Mentioned on Mac Geek Gab podcast #1125January 31, 2026 · Mac Geek Gab, News, Review, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx was mentioned again on the Mac Geek Gab podcast, episode 1125 – “This Will All Be On The Test” . Check out the section “00:43:12 Andy-Wha...
DriveDx is fully compatible with macOS 26 TahoeSeptember 25, 2025 · DriveDx, macOS 26, macOS Tahoe, SAT SMART Driver
We periodically receive emails asking if the current version of DriveDx supports macOS 26 Tahoe. The answer is yes. DriveDx (1.12.1) and the SAT SMART driver...
- DriveDx 1.12.1 released
September 26, 2023 · Apple Silicon, DriveDx, macOS, macOS 14, macOS Sonoma, Maintenance, New Release, News, SAT SMART Driver
DriveDx v1.12.1 is out! This is primarily a maintenance release. Users check for updates.
DriveDx 1.12 releasedJune 8, 2023 · Apple M1, Apple Silicon, ARM, DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.12 is out! Users check for updates. What’s new:
- Fixed issues related to last week’s website updgrade
April 10, 2022 · Maintenance, Website
Since last Monday (April 04, 2022) we have been working on our website to speed it up and moved it to a new CDN (Content Delivery Network). In this regard, t...
- DriveDx Mentioned on Mac Geek Gab Podcast #917
April 2, 2022 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, Review, SSD, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx again mentioned on Mac Geek Gab Podcast, episode 917 – “I’m Pretty Much a Doctor Now?” #917 .
DriveDx Mentioned on Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #884August 12, 2021 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, Maintenance, News, Review, SSD, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx mentioned again on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast “Deep Dives into Chargers, Cord-Cutting, Hard Drive Maintenance, and More” #884 .
DriveDx 1.11 releasedJune 17, 2021 · Apple M1, Apple Silicon, ARM, DriveDx, New Release, News, SAT SMART Driver
DriveDx v1.11 is out! Users check for updates. What’s new:
- DriveDx Mentioned on Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #860
March 23, 2021 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, SSD, The Mac Observer, Troubleshooting
Our product DriveDx again mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #860 .
We released SAT SMART Driver for Apple Silicon MacsJanuary 24, 2021 · Apple M1, Apple Silicon, ARM, DriveDx, macOS, New Release, SAT SMART Driver
Some great news for DriveDx users! We have released the long-awaited SAT SMART Driver version fully compatible with Apple Silicon Macs.
- DriveDx Mentioned on Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #851
January 20, 2021 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx again mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #851 . Section “SSD versus HDD for Long Term Storage”, at time = 00:29:24. Tha...
- DriveDx 1.10.1 released: Hardened Runtime tweaks & fixes
November 5, 2020 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SAT SMART Driver
DriveDx v1.10.1 is out! Users check for updates.
DriveDx 1.10.0 released: Hardened RuntimeOctober 30, 2020 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.10.0 is out! Users check for updates.
- DriveDx Mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #807
March 30, 2020 · Mac Geek Gab, macOS, News, Review, The Mac Observer, Troubleshooting
Our product DriveDx mentioned again on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #807 . Section “JP-Old/Failing Drives Kept Mac from Shutting Down”, at time =...
DriveDx 1.9.1 releasedDecember 26, 2019 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release
DriveDx v1.9.1 is out! Users check for updates.
- DriveDx v1.9.0 is out!
December 2, 2019 · macOS, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.9.0 is out! We added support of 60+ new SSD models and improved drive health diagnostics algorithms. Diagnostic algorithms have updated based on r...
- DriveDx 1.8.3 released
September 16, 2019 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SAT SMART Driver
DriveDx v1.8.3 is out! New version is macOS Catalina 10.15 ready.
- Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #776
September 10, 2019 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, News, Review, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx mentioned again on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #776 . Section “Chris-775-SMART on NVMe Macs”, at time = 00:51:10. Thanks Mac...
- Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #775
September 1, 2019 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, News, Review, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx mentioned again on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #775 . Section “Eric-S.M.A.R.T. Not Being Used by Default Anymore?”, at time =...
DriveDx received Macworld Editors Choice AwardMay 8, 2019 · Macworld, News, Review
Macworld has published a thorough review of DriveDx for Mac . We are proud and excited to announce that DriveDx 1.8.2 received Macworld Editors’ Choice Award...
- DriveDx is recommended by Macworld
January 24, 2019 · DriveDx, Macworld, News, Review
DriveDx was recommended by Macworld in the article “What you can do with an internal SSD module from a vintage Mac” :
- Website issues with database connection fixed
December 21, 2018 · Maintenance, News, Website
Unfortunately, our web-hosting provider has changed the database server settings without prior notice.
- DriveDx 1.8.2 released
December 3, 2018 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.8.2 is out! Users “check for updates”.
- DriveDx Mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #727
September 26, 2018 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, macOS, News, Review, The Mac Observer, Troubleshooting
Our product DriveDx featured on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #727 . Section “Dead drive”, at time = 00:01:20. Thanks Mac Geek Gab team!
iStat Menus 6.2 could break S.M.A.R.T. support in macOSJuly 21, 2018 · HDD, macOS, SSD, Troubleshooting
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...
- DriveDx 1.8.1 released
July 11, 2018 · DriveDx, New Release, News
DriveDx v1.8.1 is out! Users “check for updates”.
- DriveDx Mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #715
June 30, 2018 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, macOS, Review, The Mac Observer, Troubleshooting
Our product DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #715 . Section “Brent-HDD (Fusion Drive) Issues”, at time = 00:54:03. Thanks Mac Gee...
Website fixedJune 14, 2018 · News, Troubleshooting
- DriveDx 1.8.0 released
June 7, 2018 · DriveDx, HDD, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.8.0 is out! Users “check for updates”.
- DriveDx 1.7.0 released
December 6, 2017 · DriveDx, HDD, New Release, News, SSD
Full change log (release notes) is here .
- DriveDx 1.6.0 released
August 4, 2017 · macOS, New Release, News, SSD
Full change log (release notes) is here .
DriveDx v1.5.1 releasedDecember 17, 2016 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SSD
DriveDx v1.5.1 is out! Users “check for updates”.
- DriveDx v1.5.0 released
December 8, 2016 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News
DriveDx v1.5.0 is out! Finally :-).
- DriveDx 1.5.0 will be released in November 2016
October 28, 2016 · Beta, DriveDx, New Release, News
- DriveDx recommended by Gizmodo
June 5, 2016 · DriveDx, HDD, News, SSD, Troubleshooting
DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #605June 2, 2016 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, macOS, News, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #605 . Thanks Mac Geek Gab team!
- When a hard drive fails
May 15, 2016 · DriveDx, HDD, macOS, Troubleshooting
Now I just recently experienced a different kind of drive failure. My drive did not crash or get corrupted. It simply stopped working efficiently. On my MacP...
- DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #595
April 4, 2016 · DriveDx, Mac Geek Gab, News, The Mac Observer
Our product DriveDx mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast #595 . Thanks Mac Geek Gab team!
- Checking your drives with DriveDx
Blog “The Eclectic Light Company” published excellent and very helpful review of DriveDx. Here are some quotes:
- We published SAT SMART Driver v0.10 for OS X 10.10+ (Yosemite and newer)
January 18, 2016 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News, SAT SMART Driver, Troubleshooting
Great news for all our users! Today we published SAT SMART Driver v0.10 that is compatible with OS X 10.10+ (Yosemite, El Capitan and newer). You can downloa...
- DriveDx v1.4.0 Final Release is out
June 15, 2015 · DriveDx, macOS, New Release, News
Great news for DriveDx users! DriveDx v1.4.0 Final Release is now available for download .
- DriveDx v1.4.0 Release Candidate is now available
April 28, 2015 · Beta, DriveDx, New Release, News
The long wait is finally over! DriveDx v1.4 Release Candidate is now available for download . Final release will be in the next few weeks.
- [IMPORTANT] If DriveDx doesn’t show your internal SSDs/HDDs
April 23, 2015 · DriveDx, Troubleshooting
Our investigation has shown that running “CleanMyMac 3” app is a root cause for this issue. CleanMyMac 3 interferes with S.M.A.R.T. subsystem of OS X, so tha...
Importance of firmware updates for SSDsMay 15, 2013 · Crucial, DriveDx, Firmware, SSD, Troubleshooting
Here is the good article about the complexity of modern SSDs, an importance of firmware updates and how DriveDx could help – “ SSDs are more than simple hard...
