[absmiths]

Somehow I got a copy of TechTool Pro 4.0.1 in the mail yesterday (I preordered it last April, but the web site still shows that it is due for release "Sometime in November.") Anyway, I am not very happy with it. After Norton, Drive 10, DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro 4, I am beginning to wonder why no company can write a non-crappy disk tool for OS X.

I personally own DiskWarrior and both MicroMat products, but all have been big let downs. Drive 10 required a costly upgrade for a minor update and turned out to be a fundraiser for TechTool pro. Optimization in Drive 10 and TechTool pro is so slow that it is unuseable (a couple of days for one drive). TechTool pro crashed my "Crash Proof" Panther/Jaguar systems yesterday no fewer than 5 times - once because I simply pressed the "Performance" button.

TechTool comes on a bootable disk that has Panther preinstalled (so it is useless for my Beige G3 tower). But even on my TiBook it ran so slowly that I had to terminate it (The CD-ROM was thrashing like crazy).

Anyway, I thought that they were waiting to release it until it was done right (hence the myriad delays) but apparently they decided for a release nonetheless. Oh, they also built that stupid network serial scanner in so that if you use the same copy on two machines at once then BOTH quit. This stuff really pisses me off. It will only bother legitimate users - pirates will just steal two serial numbers or block the ports . . .

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

If your machine is crash free then why in the hell are you running every disk utility on the planet?

Screw the performance button, you should know how fast your computer is without having to see some number.

Also 10.3 does some defragging on its own and I would pay to see you find a speed difference after you defrag. If it takes 2 days to defrag are you really saving any time in the end?

Save your money, own Diskwarrior for emergencies and that is it.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
If your machine is crash free then why in the hell are you running every disk utility on the planet?

Hey, catch the sarcasm, will you?

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by absmiths:
I personally own DiskWarrior and both MicroMat products, but all have been big let downs.

What is a "let down" about DiskWarrior? It's about as straightforward as they get - choose the disk, hit Rebuild, it does its thing, does it well, and fixes your drive. It doesn't install kernel extensions to make your system unstable, it doesn't screw with your System folder, it doesn't F things up, it just fixes your drive.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally posted by absmiths:
Hey, catch the sarcasm, will you?

If you are having that many crashes for real then you got other problems that no disk utility is going to fix.

How is the performance check and disk optimization going to help with crashing anyway?

[absmiths]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
What is a "let down" about DiskWarrior? It's about as straightforward as they get - choose the disk, hit Rebuild, it does its thing, does it well, and fixes your drive. It doesn't install kernel extensions to make your system unstable, it doesn't screw with your System folder, it doesn't F things up, it just fixes your drive.

DiskWarrior has certainly been better than the others, but not all that great. I have had it crash on me, it tells me there isn't enough room to replace a directory on a drive with 4 GB of free space, and it doesn't repair the disk, it only reorganizes the directory structure. That's useful, but not what I wanted when I bought it.

It is also annoying that it only works on one drive at a time.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
If you are having that many crashes for real then you got other problems that no disk utility is going to fix.

How is the performance check and disk optimization going to help with crashing anyway?

1 - The Performance feature is not a benchmarking feature - it is for directory maintenance (I think like DW) and defragging . . .

2 - The point that everyone missed is that clicking on a button should not cause a complete system lockup.

3 - You might infer that the frequent crashes are what prompted me to buy the software in the first place.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

So tell us what is so wrong with DiskWarrior.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
So tell us what is so wrong with DiskWarrior.

see http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...43#post1718034