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This is immediately apparent if you 'view' the platters of a drive with a defragging app that can show you each individual sector.

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Over time, without defragging, the drive will acquire thousands of areas of 'fragmented free space' between data files. It's also true for drives that have been in use for some time. Any fragmentation they encounter can interfere with this process. Typically, audio or video apps need a large contiguous block of 'free space' so that they can lay down a clean, continuous stream of data. This is particularly so for those who work with audio or video, and do a lot of recording with same. There absolutely IS good reason to defrag a Mac drive in some situations. 'Please save your time and money and move on from those 'PC' days. Mic j posted common Mac misinformation above: As long as about 30% of the HD is unused the performance is OK without using a defragmentation tool. I think it is much better to try not filling up the disk too much. The performance gain was not really worth the cost and time spent, in my opinion. As there are no separate power supplies needed, this seems to be a viable solution to me.īy the way, in the past I used Drive Genius 3 (installed on a USB stick with boot capability) to defragment the internal HD of my iMac. I'm too afraid of opening my 27' iMac and prefer the external solution. From the comments at Amazon it should be possible to replace the conventional HD with an SSD drive and get reasonable performance. The least it's done is prevent a googler from doing this!Ĭlick to expand.After using the quoted Transcend Thunderbolt-Drive to my satisfaction (I have installed the Bootcamp partition on it, by the way), I wanted to use a Samsung 850 1TB SSD in an external Thunderbolt case. Thank you for everyone who tried to stop me from unnecessarily wearing out a drive though. PPS: no, I don't have an SSD, otherwise I wouldn't ask.

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PS: defragging can be either live or offline (booted from a stick or DVD) - guess offline is better as it can move files a live defrag can't.

I know OS X does a better job at this than Windows, but I really think it's time to do this. To be frank, I don't really remember it too well, because right around that time my Mac failed anyways and I had to get my GPU replaced through Apple.Īnyhow, I'd love to hear what everyone considers to be a safe approach to defragging a Mac. Well that or another event that occurred at the same time maybe.

I've tried Drive Genius 3 once, but it caused problems.

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I've tried to get some best practices (/programs) for defragging my Mac, or more specifically, my El Cap partition (shared with a Bootcamp partition hosting Windows 7 and of course the usual recovery partition for OS X).