I've got TTP only because Micromat was selling it cheaply to TT Deluxe users, and except for SMART Check (which may not be a more vigorous HD test than DW's but generates more analytical results), it just sits on my deuced Mac(hina) and vegetates. Except for the area of similar function, does anyone use both DW and TechTool together except for the area of overlap? If I like it, I'll buy it and then I'll build in more capacity including a bootable partition for DiskWarrior to reside.
#Use tech tool pro for fusion drive pro
I'm hanging on until the new, smaller, higher-powered Mac Pro is released. Another factor is that my Mac Pro is an early 2008 model that is getting long in the tooth. My experience is like jschuzi's, I don't use DW as much as I used to, so I put up with the original CD. That's why I boot from the original CD when I use DW. I could partition one of the discs to make a DiskWarrior partition which can boot, but that will take away some storage area from the Time Machine backup partition on that drive and we both have large collections of files that we need to save as far back as possible. That's why I do DiskWarrior 4.4 from its original drive. Each of us also has an external backup for the Mountain Lion drive. The third drive is my own internal backup for my Mountain Lion drive. My machine serves as a remote storage location for her. One is for my wife's iMac that I put in target disk mode and use a long Firewire 800 cable to connect to my Mac Pro. The other two are for Time Machine backups.