The latest release of Scannerz now includes the newest version of Phoenix, version 2.0. Additionally, the Scannerz user interface has been modified to make it easy to determine various drive configurations, components, and arrangements for systems using Core Storage or Apple RAID components and more complicated drive arrangements.
Scannerz is a set of hard drive, SSD, and system analysis tools designed to help users isolate hardware and performance problems with their system. Scannerz itself can help identify problems with hard drives, SSDs, interconnecting support circuitry, and logic boards. Performance Probe 2 can help identify software problems, hard drive or SSD performance problems, network bottlenecks, and overactive or memory intensive applications. FSE or FSE-Lite allow the user to identify which applications are making excessive use of the hard drive or SSD, with FSE being configurable. The tool Phoenix, version 2.0, can allow a user to perform very basic drive cloning, create an emergency boot drive on an external drive or USB flash drive, and perform a higher degree of file recovery on a damaged drive than its predecessor.
A multi-drive/volume logical volume created in Yosemite, Mavericks or Mountain Lion can be tested in its entirety or by each individual drive component comprising the logical volume. Fully encrypted Core Storage based drives or volumes may be scanned directly without needing to use an external drive or another bootable media. Core Storage volumes can be evaluated using both OS X 10.5 Leopard and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, although Core Storage volumes will not be mountable since these OSes cannot inherently recognize Core Storage. There is also full support for Apple RAID, as well as most hardware RAID units. With the release of version 1.9.2.10, Scannerz can now handle drives not normally recognized by Macintosh computers as well as some drives too damaged to be properly detected by the operating, assuming the drive is at least still operational. This release will also support the latest versions of Yosemite (OS X 10.10.2). Limited support is provided for third party software RAID implementations.
