DriveDx Mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast 727
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!
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iStat Menus 6.2 could break S.M.A.R.T. support in macOS
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...
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DriveDx Mentioned on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast 715
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 Geek Gab team!
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Website fixed
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!
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DriveDx recommended by Gizmodo
There is a good article on Gizmodo “4 Ways to Help Your Laptop Enjoy a Longer Life”. It recommends DriveDx as a good tool to “keep an eye on your hard drive’s health (including current running temperatures) and alert you to any potential problems before they get serious”.
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When a hard drive fails
Here is the good example story of how DriveDx could help: “ 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 MacPro desktop I was experiencing major performance slowness. I had rebuilt the OS once or twice. Now
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We published SAT SMART Driver v0.10 for OS X 10.10+ (Yosemite and newer)
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 download it here. Enjoy! SAT SMART Driver is an OS X kernel driver for diagnostic support of external USB and FireWire drives. It extends the standard OS X
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[IMPORTANT] If DriveDx doesn’t show your internal SSDs/HDDs
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 that even Apple’s Disk Utility can’t work properly, it reports “S.M.A.R.T. status: Not supported” for all drives when CleanMyMac 3...
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Importance of firmware updates for SSDs
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 disks (and how I found it out the hard way)“. Here are some quotes: “ Few minutes after the reboot, I placed my MacBook in standby and