{"id":21349,"date":"2018-04-27T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21349"},"modified":"2018-04-27T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T21:00:11","slug":"drive-genius-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/drive-genius-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Genius Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosofteng.com\/free-drive-genius-lite\/\">Prosoft Engineering<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.prosofteng.com\/free-drive-genius-lite\/\"><p>Drive Genius Lite automatically monitors your Mac using Drive Pulse&trade; technology and will alert you when any potential harmful issues arise!<\/p>\n<p>Drive Genius Lite Includes:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Automatic Drive Monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Malware Detection<\/li>\n<li>Professional Solution Recommendations<\/li>\n<li>Hard Drive Failure Predictions<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There used to be a free trial that included unlimited use of some of the less glamorous features, such as Physical Check, which is the one I use most often. Then they changed to a fully-featured 30-day trial, after which you could purchase the entire app for a single price.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they&rsquo;ve changed to four different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosofteng.com\/drive-genius-mac-protection-software\/#feature-options\">packages<\/a> of features that you can purchase. The Lite feature set (above) is included for free. I believe DrivePulse does scan for bad blocks, so that feature is still available for free in a different way. However, as a paid customer, I personally prefer to uninstall DrivePulse and invoke the tools manually.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/drive-genius-5-1-adds-high-sierra-compatibility\/\">Drive Genius 5.1 Adds High Sierra Compatibility<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosoft Engineering: Drive Genius Lite automatically monitors your Mac using Drive Pulse&trade; technology and will alert you when any potential harmful issues arise! Drive Genius Lite Includes: Automatic Drive Monitoring Malware Detection Professional Solution Recommendations Hard Drive Failure Predictions There used to be a free trial that included unlimited use of some of the less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-27T21:00:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"accaca18-a5ab-40b4-81ad-78c452a197af","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-27T21:00:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArMrKGKWrQLSBrXjEUqGXrw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,1321,367,30,32,1529,174],"class_list":["post-21349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-data-integrity","tag-drivegenius","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-13","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21350,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}