In summary: if your goal is to be ready for a disaster and spend little money, you should better take a look at all the free and/or open-source tools available. Look at the free version of for an example.įurthermore, when you will REALLY need tools is when the drive hardware starts to fail, and then I doubt any of these tools will help you - but there are again free tools which will work (like dd_rescue). That's BS if you want to check RAM, you better check as much of it as possible, and for that you'll probably have to restart in Single User Mode, so only minimal RAM is busy. ![]() As a particular example, TechToolPro checks "free RAM". No idea how it has evolved since then, though.Īnyway, I just took a look at both TechToolPro and Disk Drill Pro and both seem to mostly do things that free tools do. TechToolPro discounted? Ha! I wonder why.Īs for DiskWarrior: again, I used it loooong ago, but it was really solid and saved me a couple of times. There were free tools doing far better most of what the paid TechToolPro theoretically should do. ![]() It was such an useless, bloated, even scammy thing, that I never even considered them again. ![]() In case it helps: I used TechToolPro a couple of times looong ago, still on what we now call "classic Mac OS" (pre-OS X). If you have Mac with a traditional hard drive, Disk Drill Pro offers one of the most advanced data recovery utilities available.
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