14 DAY TRIAL // Every time you take out a memory card to transfer files to another device, or simply transfer files from your internal memory to the storage card, the memory card's lifetime drops a little bit. Sometimes your memory card may fail much earlier than expected and in a time when you most need it, or sometimes it will take longer. Still, there's no way that you will be able to know your memory card's good order unless you use a third-party application. One of the most useful storage card utilities is called Pocket Mechanic and has been developed by iambic.
Pocket Mechanic helps greatly reduce the risk of losing vital information that has been copied on your memory card. Furthermore, it allows you to find out with approximation when your card will fail, so you can save all the information you have stored on it.
Basically, you will be able to scan the disk, so you can verify and repair logical file system errors, format the storage card (logical and physical), and do system cleanups. Pocket Mechanic offers FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 support, storage card defragment and fragmentation analysis, storage card benchmarks (measuring raw card read/write speed), storage card surface/bad sectors tests, secure delete feature (overwriting your sensitive data before deleting to guarantee your privacy), storage folder renaming, support for TCP/IP configuration module. The utility can be a great asset for those that have big chunks of data stored on their memory cards, as Pocket Mechanic can offer them basic features such as normal and low level format, but also more complex ones, like defragment, or scan and repair. Benchmarks can also be used to determine the speed of their storage card, but they can also test their memory card for physical errors. Pocket Mechanic is available as a 15-day trial, after which the user must register the software. The program can be bought for $19.95.Note: You can easily follow my guides by subscribing to the RSS feed.
