[P1] Defragmentation Method?

[e.mkeene]

>> I read this and wanted to know the best program to defragment the HD
>> in X?
>
> I use DiskWarrior; it's a good repair tool to have around in case of
> catastrophic problems like directory corruption.

DiskWarrior deals with the directory only. It completely replaces the 
old directory with a brand new one that has all the corrected info in 
it in the correct places.

For defragmentation of hard drive data files, there are only two apps 
that I personally know about. Speed Disk from Norton and Drive 10 from 
Micromat. I used SpeedDisk up to 9.2.2 and then I did not upgrade 
because of the amount of time it took for Norton to release the update 
and the fact that it had to be run from OS 9.2 on OS X drives. That 
felt like a recipe for disaster so I just waited until I got Drive 10. 
I have used it once since I got it and since I did not have a backup at 
that time, I took a chance and simply used the defrag option instead of 
the optimization which would have worked on the entire disk. I suffered 
no data loss and regained the empty space I needed in a contiguous 
block.

Techtool Pro 4 will also have the optimization feature I believe.


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