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    DRIVEDX: MAC UTILITY PROVIDES HINTS AND WARNINGS WHEN YOUR DRIVE IS ABOUT TO FAIL

    Jun 18, 2019 4 minutes
    BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

    Your hard-disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) “know” quite a bit about how well they’re functioning. Nearly all modern drives of both kinds have internal diagnostics and track other information about usage and wear. But it can be hard to surface that without Terminal commands, and tough to interpret the context, especially for SSDs.

     from Binary Fruit puts a friendly face on complicated data, and can offer critical information about the state of your drives before a failure. With a database of drive information that the company has compiled, it offers insight that would take far longer to assemble for anyone but a technical expert.

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