Catch Problems Before they Occur
 
Scannerz can detect problems that are in the initial phases of development that other products costing three times as much often miss. Why wait for a catastrophic failure to occur if Scannerz can detect the problem before it becomes serious?
 
Test When You Want To
Scannerz allows you to stop, start, and resume a test when you want to. You don't need to tie your system down for hours on end just to test a drive.
 
Identify Bottlenecks That Can Act Like Drive Problems
Scannerz with FSE or FSE-Lite, can identify other problems that may make you think you have drive problems when none exist. FSE and FSE-Lite can be used to isolate not only applications that have become "drive hogs" but can also help identify other problems, such as malware.
 
 
Included below are are the Product Profiles for all of our products. Simply click on one of the icons below and the Product Profile will be presented to you in PDF format.
 
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then videos must be worth a few million. Click on the icon to the right to see some videos of Scannerz in action!
The table below illustrates the differences between Scannerz-Lite and the fully featured versions of Scannerz.  A brief write up on both products is included below the table.
 
 
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Prices:
          $17.95 For Scannerz Lite for Mac OS X
          $34.95 For Scannerz with FSE-Lite for Mac OS X
          $44.95 For a Scannerz and FSE for Mac OS X combined bundle (save $9.95)
 
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Information for our entire product line may be obtained by clicking on the product profiles on the right side of this web page. Click HERE to see some screen shots of Scannerz, or click on the video icon below to see actual videos of Scannerz and Scannerz-Lite in use.
Scannerz and Scannerz-Lite can be run on normally configured systems using Mac OS X versions 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) using supported Intel or PowerPC processors using drives with SATA, IDE, FireWire, most Thunderbolt, and USB 2.0 (or greater) drive
components, including  full volume encryption using File Vault 2 under Lion and Mountain Lion, multi-drive/volume virtual volumes using Core Storage, support for Apple RAID, better support for hardware RAID, and limited support for third party software RAID implementations.
 
Scannerz and Scannerz-Lite will not support or should not be used with any of the following types of devices:
 
               1. USB 1.0 or 1.1 devices.
               2. Network drives.
               3. Drives connected via Xsan
               4. Optical drives of any type
               5. Old hard drives using MFM interfaces
               6. Drive formats not natively supported by MacOS
 
From Simple Drive Tests, to Complex Troubleshooting, Scannerz Does it All
Scannerz uses the most advanced diagnostics in the world to check your hard drive while being easy to use. Typical users will find the drive evaluation process easy to use and understand. Advanced users will find Scannerz advanced diagnostics configuration and troubleshooting capabilities invaluable.
Scannerz has been designed to perform all these tasks, and yet be easy to use. Click on the camera icon to the right to see some screen captures of Scannerz in action!
What is Scannerz?
Scannerz is a hard drive and system testing tool. Scannerz comes in three packages named Scannerz with FSE, Scannerz with FSE-Lite, and Scannerz Lite. Scannerz with FSE or FSE-Lite are referred to as the fully featured version of the product, whereas Scannerz Lite is a less sophisticated subset of the fully featured version. With one of the fully featured versions of Scannerz, you can:
 
      Detect bad sectors/blocks on a hard drive
      Detect weak sectors on a hard drive
      Identify emerging system or drive related performance problems before they become serious
      Isolate external and internal cable problems
      Isolate certain logic board faults associated with the computers I/O subsystem
      Using FSE or FSE-Lite, identify excessive drive access often caused by background (hidden) processes
 
All versions of Scannerz were designed to be very, very easy to use. All you need to do to use it is click on the drive or volume you wish to evaluate and start a test. We recommend using Scannerz or Scannerz Lite on a monthly basis so you can identify problems before they become serious, possibly even crashing your system. A comparison of Scannerz and Scannerz Lite features is shown in the lower section of this page.
 
All versions of Scannerz now have full support for Core Storage volumes used in Lion and Mountain Lion as well as full support for Apple RAID and most hardware implemented versions of RAID. All versions can perform tests on multi-drive/volume logical volumes under Mountain Lion, and fully encrypted Core Storage volumes and drives in both Mountain Lion and Lion without the need for a remotely mounted drive or bootable volume.
 
 
 
 
interfaces.  Both Scannerz and Scannerz-Lite are now fully capable of handling Core Storage
System Requirements
Both Scannerz and Scannerz Lite can detect not only errors, but irregularities. Irregularities often occur when a drive or a subsystem component is in the process of developing problems. Scannerz and Scannerz Lite are the only commercially available tools on the market with this type of detection capability.
 
The fully featured release of Scannerz performs drive profiling, which can help the user clearly identify and head off problems related to a drive before they become serious by monitoring the historical performance of the drive and generating reports at the end of each test to indicate the current status of the drive. It also has two test modes, normal and cursory, which allow a user to extensively test a drive or volume in normal mode, and if problems exist, quickly evaluate them in cursory mode. A cursory mode test is fully configurable allowing the user to scan over problematic regions of a drive without having to retest the entire drive. Scannerz also includes a logging window allowing the user to monitor detailed test results in real time.
 
Scannerz Lite, on the other hand, is a fairly simple and straightforward tool. It does a test over an entire drive or volume, and when complete it simply informs the user what the status of the drive is. There is no option to perform limited scans over suspected problematic regions, there is no logging window, and there is none of the drive profiling and analysis available with the fully featured version of Scannerz. Scannerz Lite provides a quick, easy, and low cost solution for someone that simply wants to ensure their system and drive are operating properly.