On Friday, August 20, 2004, at 10:36 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
RAMometer was a great tool for checking new RAM. And it was free! But, on machines like the AIO I am working on, it is useless. I am not even installing OS 9 on the AIO.
If folks are not using TTP4, what are you people using beside DiskWarrior? Is there anything else?
Nancy
Well, your RAM gets checked pretty carefully by any OS X machine, Apple tightened their standards. So if there's a problem or the timing is off or something, you'll know about it.
Look, all that hardware test stuff: well, it looks pretty, but what does it MEAN in reality? So you have a CPU with crashes. You run TTP. IT crashes during RAM test. Now, the crash is due perhaps to RAM, perhaps to other hardware. You've learned: not much. You could have figured out more by spending no $ and pulling one bank of RAM out.
The MacUser review says the TTP4 has data recovery capabilities: secure delete(!) (which is available for free for any BSD), IT "instantly turns on/off journaling" (ever looked in the file/journaling menu of a 10.3 machine? And journal ing under earlier OS versions? good luck...) "predictive failure" warning for your drive (hmmm...), and oh, by the way, it does back up directory info and do (some unspecified type of) data recovery.
Sorry but (again IMO) I want a data recovery tool that emphasizes DATA RECOVERY. They could be just reinventing standard un*x tools for doing basic filesystem repair and work, such as are already available for free. The earlier poster here said TTP4 seemed to cause more issues than it fixes- and IMO it doesn't seem designed to fix much...
It took me a long time to trust DiskWarrior, partly as it took them SO long to get a version out that would work with non-mountable drives (it used to be the case that if a drive would not mount, you then could not access it w/ DW, so in OS 8.6/9 days, you had to have Norton around to fix up a drive to get it to mount, and then you could finallly run DW), but that's not an issue now. DW X is supposed to be great, I've only used earlier versions.
I've not seen more than reviews of TTP4 for X but honestly don't see much there that would negate my experience with the older TTP's. Although the repartitioning on the fly to let you install TTP on its own partition is nice, I'll give it that. IF it could stick OS 9 drivers on my HD, since I forgot to do that when I set up my OS X system that would be nice ('cos then my B/W G4 could boot into 9) that would be worth something.
Anyway. It's been a few days and no one has stuck up for it since I asked. Maybe this will bring someone out (with good or bad experiences). I'd like to know if it has improved since my last experience with it.
HTH :)
Brian
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