SubRosaSoft today announced the availability of DiskGuardian 2.0, a collection of tools that alert users of imminent hard drive failure in addition to performing Volume Repairs, Backup and Restore, Benchmarking, Surface Scanning for media defects, and verification of data integrity on storage subsystems. The utility also features the ability to Backup a partition to an image, and Restore the image to create a volume identical to the original. SubRosaSoft DiskGuardian 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$69.95. Competitive upgrades are available for $54.95 for users of Drive10, TechTools Pro, SMART Toolkit, Norton Utilities, and Disk Warrior.