[X4U] De-fragmentation (revisited)

[verduron]

On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:43 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> As for Apple's official take on defragmentation, I cite that document 
> on
> my Web page at:
>
> OS X Routine Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
> Note #2
>
> ...along with other information about optimization that you may or may
> not find useful.  It may be that file fragmentation is no longer a
> problem under Panther.  But disk fragmentation still is.  You probably
> won't realize any overall performance gains by defragmenting, but you 
> may
> realize some significant reliability gains as your drive approaches 80%
> full.
>
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)
>
> How To Deal With Common OS X 10.3 Panther Problems
> http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html
>
Thank you all. I am not doing anything professional. I will opt, after 
reading everything you sent, not to de-fragment and will make certain 
my hard drive has the famous 20% space kept in store.