Stellar Drive ToolBox Review

COMPLETE REVIEW

Stellar Drive ToolBox is an optimization/maintenance solution for Mac. It was developed by Stellar Data Recovery Inc., a company that was founded in 1993. Stellar Data Recovery Inc. is headquartered in India, but also has offices in US and Europe.

The company boasts on having more than 2 million customers worldwide, in almost 200 countries.

It comes with several useful tools that help you repair, protect and optimize your Mac. Stellar Drive TooBox focuses on keeping your hard drive clean and healthy, thus boosting the overall performance of your computer.

The SOHO version (single user) is suited for home users and can only be run on one computer, while the Technician version is “multiple user”, so you can run it on any computer, at any location.

The license has lifetime validity for both packages.

Here are the 15 tools included in Stellar Drive ToolBox:

SpeedUp Mac

Drive Clone

Drive Defrag

Mac Wipe

Partition Manager

Drive Initialize

Volume Optimizer

Disk Editor

Shield

Drive Monitor 

Smart Finder

Smart Mac Care

Data Encryptor

Benchmark

Uninstaller

You can also download a free version of the app, but it only lets you analyze and evaluate the features. If you want to be able to actually repair or optimize your hard-drive, you have to register the software.

This company also offers 100% money-back guarantee and includes free support for a year, during weekdays, if you purchase any of the versions.

Just like other such utility suites, Stellar Drive ToolBox also proves to be a comprehensive solution that includes all the tools you need in a single app. This is a smart and efficient approach as far as we are concerned, because all-in-one apps save you the trouble of downloading dozens of different apps that are only capable of performing a single task.

Here are some of the features our testers liked best and found to be the most useful in Stellar:

Wipe

We liked this feature because it allows you to wipe out confidential info on your Mac in such a way that no recovery program will be able to get it back

SpeedUp

This tool is pretty much self-explanatory. It boosts your Mac’s performance by cleaning it up. It removes all sorts of old and useless apps, large or duplicate files, cache files and so on. It can also find duplicate files for iTunes, iMovies, iWork and iPhoto Aperture.

Drive Clone   

Again, a feature that doesn’t need too many explanations. With the help of this tool you can clone your Mac drives and volumes.

Volume Optimizer

It is a very useful troubleshooting tool that allows you to repair corrupt volumes, fix errors and so on. It also has a Rebuild option which combines verification and repairing in one operation.

Shield

Recovers deleted files and directories on your Mac. It can capture the image of your hard drive at any particular time and then uses it for recovery

On the downside, one thing we noticed while testing this software was that it can get slow at times and it even froze once.