Drive Scope for Mac
Disk health and maintenance.
$49.99
In English
Version 1.2.24When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Drive Scope overview
Drive Scope is an advanced SMART drive-testing and health-warning application. Building on the improvements to the SMART check in TechTool Pro, Drive Scope not only provides early warning when a drive is on the path to failure, but provides a deep dive into the health of the drive. See what errors have occurred, and when, along with whether the errors are temporary or an indicator of overall failure. You can even trigger the drive's internal testing to run manually, providing instant access to up-to-date drive health information
What’s new in version 1.2.24
- Resolved an issue with oversized system-wide fonts
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated the Sparkle update framework to version 1.27.3
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed blank NVMe SMART Log table issue
- Updates to SATA and NVMe table layouts
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated PCI vendor identification database
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Updated the method for downloading the drives database
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated PCI vendor identification database
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed issue in which NVMe SMART data for first drive was displayed for other NVMe drives
- Updated SMART Log table for NVMe devices
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed a reported application crash for macOS 10.9 'Mavericks' users
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated PCI vendor identification database
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Additional support for third party rotational and solid state drive vendors
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed a health status icon mismatch
- Updated the Vendor ID database for NVMe Data table
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Update SATA drive health result for drives with invalid SMART attribute structures
- Update to display build date and revision information for SATA drive database
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed blank volume name for unmounted Windows Recovery partition entry
- Corrected misaligned health indicators in the Information tab
- Updated SAT SMART Driver Installer with latest code signing certificate
- Corrected various column widths for SATA and NVMe tables
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed various cropped NVMe and SATA table columns
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.27.1
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed cropped text fields for SATA drives
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Updated to support Apple’s NVMe SMART library framework
- Corrected timer issues encountered with the Self-Test for SATA drives
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed an application crash when updating to the latest drive database
- Fixed a reported application crash for macOS 10.9 'Mavericks' users
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.26.0
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed an application crash at launch
- Corrected a drive database format change
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.25.0
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added macOS 11 'Big Sur' compatibility
- Fixed an issue where the SMART attributes would have Unknown names
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.24.0
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Updated volume list to not display macOS 'PreBoot' volumes
- Updated SMART attribute 188 value to be ignored by default
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.23.0
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added additional support for NVMe revision 1.2 or greater
- Added a localized version of the SAT SMART Driver Installer
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Updated for full macOS 10.15 'Catalina' compatibility
- Fixed error when reading external NVMe drives
- Fixed crash related to NTFS formatted SD cards
- Fix for external drives sometimes not displaying drive logo
- Updated SAT SMART Driver installation for macOS Catalina support
- Updated Vendor ID database for NVMe Data table
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.22.0
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Corrected duplicate vendor name for Device Model
- Added support for detection of unformatted drives
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added Apple Notary Service support
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added support for SanDisk Extreme USB flash drives
- Updated SAT SMART Driver with updated code signing credentials
- Updated Sparkle update framework to version 1.21.3
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed a text display issue in Mojave's Dark Mode
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed Save as PDF... functionality when in Dark Mode
- Added additional drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated drive model detection when only a part number is used
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Updated for full macOS 10.14 'Mojave' compatibility
- Drive Scope now requires OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' or greater
- Added Dark Mode support for macOS 10.14 'Mojave' users
- Fixed a compatibility issue when SoftRAID drivers are active
- Updated Sparkle framework to version 1.20.0
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed an application hang when a LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 2 external drive is connected
- Improved drive database redundancy for the Attributes tab
- Updated drive manufacturer company logos
- Updated Sparkle to version 1.19.0
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed an issue in which the drives database would fail to load
- Corrections to the Drive Scope PDF manual
- Updated drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Fixed an application hang during launch for certain internal NVMe (PCI-Express) SSDs
- Added support for identifying older NewerTech external hard drive enclosures
- Corrected an Apple SMART attribute name
- Updated drive manufacturer company logos
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added support for internal NVMe SSDs in MacBook (2015 and later), MacBook Pro (2016 and later), iMac (2017)
- Fixed a potential application hang during launch
- Updated drive manufacturer company logos
- Updates to the Drive Scope PDF manual
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added Power Cycle Count to the Information tab
- Fixed a reported application hang with certain models of Western Digital external hard drives
- Enabled the Self-Test feature for drives which do not save their Self-Test test results
- Updated drive manufacturer company logos
- Updates to the Drive Scope PDF manual
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Added option to install code signed SAT SMART Driver, enabling support for SMART-supported external USB and FireWire drives
- Fix for 'Time to Complete' field being editable in the Self-Test category
- Fixed Drive Scope Uninstaller application for OS X 10.9.5 or earlier users
- Updates to the Drive Scope PDF manual
- Minor fixes and enhancements
- Initial release
Drive Scope for Mac
$49.99
In English
Version 1.2.24
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Oct 26 2019
Version: 1.2.7
Only an absolute SAP would spend $4.99, let alone $49.99 for this. SMART isn't that great to begin with, varies with vendor, and is subject to interpretation. Please check out "Smart Utility" here on MacUpdate. (It's also worthless, but half the price.) Scroll down to the review by Mcr on 29 December, 2018, to see why so-called 'SMART' software really isn't worth much. Spend your $49.99 on a backup hard drive or, if you must, sink it into TechTool Pro, which has its own SMART test. And check out what Micromat's ChristianP wrote below on 22 September, 2017: "Hopefully, we'll be able to integrate the full feature set of Drive Scope into a future version of Techtool Pro." Two years later, that integration still hasn't been done. That should tell you something. -SB
Oct 26 2019
Version: 1.2.7
Just use DriveDX. Less than half the price.
Aug 26 2019
Version: 1.2.6
Drive Scope looked interesting, as a way to monitor the MANY drives connected to my iMac. Fortunately, I noticed this footnote early in my investigation:
† Drives in RAID enclosures not supported.
My system has two OWC 4-bay RAID enclosures, running in JBOD mode (Just a Bunch Of Drives). So Drive Scope is useless for me.
The moment this RAID restriction is lifted, I'll add Drive Scope as a companion to TechTool Pro.
Oct 10 2017
Version: 1.0.2
It would be helpful to provide a trial version. Without trying it, how do we know that is worth $19.99?
Sep 11 2017
Version: 1.0.2
This product is an insult to TecToolPro 9 users. If TechTool Pro 9 is a complete all-in-one diagnostic tool for Mac, why sell Drive Scope as a stand alone app instead of integrating it into Tech Tool Pro? Or is Tech Tool Pro so feeble that you have room to introduce multiple new diagnostic tools? Prediction: Drive Scope won't sell well, and it will undermine conviction that TechToolPro is as comprehensive as your advertising implies. Lose-lose. At any rate, you have undermined this long-time customer's faith that your company is interested in producing a single all-purpose diagnostic tool. It now appears that you want to milk your customers by getting them to purchase one "complete" and (ultimately) several "stand alone" diagnostic apps. Given your marketing strategy, I think I will look elsewhere than to micromat in the future.
Did you even consider this in company deliberations before marketing Direct Scope? I fear you did, and decided on the basis of how to rake in the most money.
I'm a customer for now, but not for long.
Sincerely,
David Leibowitz