
Creating a startup disk for emergency use
For Intel Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur and earlier, the eDrive and TechTool Protogo tools can be used to create startup disks used for […]
For Intel Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur and earlier, the eDrive and TechTool Protogo tools can be used to create startup disks used for […]
Support for macOS 12 Monterey is available in Techtool Pro 15. […]
Apple’s most recent Macs utilize a new family of ‘Apple Silicon’ processors instead of utilizing Intel. As a result, these new Macs operate a bit […]
TechTool Pro can automatically send an email message alerting you if a volume exceeds the volume usage threshold, if the SMART Check fails along with […]
Reading SMART attributes from external drives connected via USB or FireWire requires that you install the SAT SMART Driver so your Mac can ‘see’ the […]
Macs released over the last five years or so are now using a new internal storage connection called NVMe (or PCI-Express) for the internal SSD. […]
OWC Aura SSDs do not pass SMART data over the PCIe connection, so these drives are listed as Not Supported in Apple’s Disk Utility, and […]
SMART data relies on the hardware passing that data directly. However, RAID controllers simulate their drives to the system as logical (virtual) disks. Because they […]
There is a known issue with solid state drives produced by Toshiba for Apple. Solid state drives for these particular MacBook Airs (model numbers APPLE […]
Drive Scope can only initiate self-testing, which is internal to the drive. Any failures are handled by the drive’s internal testing mechanism. If the self-test […]
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