[X4U] Defrag utility for Tiger

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 16, 2005, at 4:12 AM, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> There were only two for Panther that I liked: SpeedDisk and  
> iDefrag.  I
> don't know if SpeedDisk works with Tiger, certainly Norton  
> Utilities will
> not be updated for use with Tiger.
>
> So that leaves iDefrag, which was a disaster when it was first  
> released,
> but which, after steady refinement, is now the premier defragmentation
> utility for OS X:

The real question is do you need to bother with defragmentation? IMO,  
no. You might want to simply wipe a format you use for video, as in  
the original post, from time to time, but other than that, it will  
give you only a tiny performance gain.


Kirk

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