Micromat has a similar approach on their ProToGo 4 and comes with several "profiles" that allow it to be used on multiple Macs and ProSoft Engineering's Drive Genius 4 now comes on or can be ported to what they call a "Bootwell" drive. Obviously Mavericks and Yosemite have made utility developers lives more interesting, as in the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times."
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
