Luckily my single license works on my desktop and portable machines so save your money on buying two licenses, at least, if you decide to go ahead. If things get weird on your computer, it might be worth a try, but it is probably far easier to just lug your computer into an Apple Store Genius Bar and let them run their tests for free. Recommendation: unless you really need a product like this, save your money. Oh, after much complaining, they gave me a $3 coupon on this last upgrade. Two phone calls were answered quickly and competently answered.
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There is a competing software product that I haven't tested, but it might be worth trying.Īnother plus, as much as I'm upset with their upgrade pricing policy, is the phone support is competent, fast and good.
Was this software worth $50 for upgrades beyond the initial purchase price? In this case, yes. Taking the computer into the store, more in-depth tests finally confirm the solid state part of the fusion drive was bad per Apple's test as well. TechTool turned out to be right both in the initial SMART error diagnosis months in advance, and in catching the drive error a second time when I ran the tests after having to rebuild the drive. The TechTool result identifying the SMART error on solid state portion, the first adviser did the 'Apple knows everything' so I was wrong thing. TechTool showed the solid state portion of my fusion drive had a SMART error. I reloaded the non-Mohave compatible TechTool version on the reformatted drive. Apple could not diagnose the error over the phone. The engineer ended up being right.Īfter rebuilding the drive in Dec, more random errors. A call to support reaffirmed that if the error occurred I should be concerned. It identified a SMART error on my fusion drive many months before it failed (first error in April when the drive blew up finally in Dec). When they FINALLY released an upgraded version to be Mohave compatible, they charged me again for the new upgrade, as I had done my previous upgrade a couple weeks too early. How crazy can these people be? Appears they are under-funded and under-staffed.
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When they FINALLY made their product work with Mohave Feb 2019, they acted as if they did not get pre-releases of the OS from Apple to make their product compatible and it is all Apple's fault, and that I should not have upgraded to Mohave until their update was available. In anticipation of Mohave OS Nov 2018 I upgraded my product to avoid potential problems. A quick search will show they have done this to customers at least since 2012.
Just another option for consideration.What a rip off-Charged for two upgrades in 3 months. And when the iMac eventually dies due to other reasons, you could resurrect the SSD and use it as an external drive. It'll give new life to your iMac and you could then put it to other uses after upgrading to your new Mac. But only you can decide whether the cost of it is worth it for you or not, especially if you're planning on upgrading in the near future.Īs an aside, in a 2010 iMac you may be better off just replacing the hard drive, especially if it still has its original drive in it.įrom memory, if it's a 21" model it wouldn't have had the option of an SSD, so the money you'd spend on TTP may be much better spent on an SSD. In fact, Apple even used to provide a cut down version of it to users who paid extra for AppleCare coverage. TechTool Pro is generally an excellent product (it hasn't had a 'perfect' history, but overall it's been quite positive). That is, Disk Utility performs a number of disk-related tasks, whereas TechTool Pro performs all these and a lot of other types of tasks as well.Īs for whether TechTool Pro will help you determine what is wrong with your Mac, the best guess anyone here is going to give you is "Maybe." It's somewhat akin to comparing a butter knife to a Swiss army knife. In fact, in many ways they're not really comparable products. As far as the main question (in your title), yes, TechTool Pro does a lot more than Disk Utility does.
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