[G4] defraging a Mac

[Shaene]

MicroMat's TechTool Pro can defrag, but you can go without a defrag and 
be fine.  The Mac uses very advanced methods of disk reading and 
writing to make sure that fragmentation is kept to a minimum.  Even if 
things do get fragmented more than usual, you won't see much slowdown 
due to the structure of HFS+ and Mac OS X's methods of working with 
hard drives.  Honestly, I've not used a defrag utility in over a year, 
and when I did, it was just to test the program, not because I needed 
it.  I use my Macs quite often for large image editing and various 
large multimedia projects, which result in a great amount of disk 
writing, and still don't use a defrag because the system itself is 
taking care of things for me.

If you do choose to try a defrag util, be careful.  Get a defrag util 
that's known to do good work, make sure any critical data is backed up, 
and don't allow the util to be abnormally stopped or you might be faced 
with data loss or a seriously fragmented disk.


Best regards,
Shaene



On Apr 1, 2004, at 8:38 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> Is there an application either in OS 10.2.8 or third party for 
> defragmenting my hard drive?  How important is it in a Mac?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
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