[Macpartners] Mac Diagnostic Tool Recommendations

[Thomas Brand]

Rocklyn,

I wouldn't recommend any of those tools before first knowing what sort of errors Disk Utility is reporting. Furthermore when your computer becomes unresponsive, does that mean it is just slow? How much RAM do you have? How much swap was being used prior to restart? Were there any errors indicated in the System log? The fact that disk utility found something, might just be a coincidence.

Thomas Brand
VPF Tech

-----Original Message-----
From: macpartners-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:macpartners-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Rocklyn E. Clarke Sr.
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 12:59 PM
To: Macintosh Partners IT
Subject: [Macpartners] Mac Diagnostic Tool Recommendations

Hello,

I'm interested in general recommendations for Mac diagnostic tools.

I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.8.3 and I find that at least once a week my system becomes unresponsive and I need to reboot after which I go into recovery mode and run disk utility to repair the drive.  Disk Utility finds something to repair at least 50% of the time.

I'm currently considering the following:

	- Micromat TechTool Pro or TechTool Protogo
	- Micromat Checkmate
	- Alsoft DiskWarrior
	- Prosoft Drive Genius
	- Titanium Software Onyx

Any thoughts?  Any gotchas?

Rocklyn