Do any of you defrag hard drives?

ukSleek · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:37

I see there's no built in defragger so i was wondering if anybody defrag's? & if so what tool do you use?

Regards.

NickK · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:41

Nope. MBP has an ssd, mini doesn't to seem to need it..

knowlesy · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:47

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ukSleek · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:59

knowlesy said:
heres a good link matey should answer everything for you

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Thx but my post was regarding Mac hard drives (i use o&o with windows)

geekyEd · 4 Mar 2010 at 18:08

ukSleek said:
Thx but my post was regarding Mac hard drives (i use o&o with windows)

I think thats the point he was getting at, its firmly in the windows section.

knowlesy · 4 Mar 2010 at 18:42

de-fragmentation mostly applies to the windows ntfs and fat filing system... due to their stick it in any place approach

K1LLSW1TCH · 4 Mar 2010 at 18:46

knowlesy said:
de-fragmentation mostly applies to the windows ntfs and fat filing system... due to their stick it in any place approach

Yep, if you use Windows for long enough and are prone to uninstalling/reinstalling things then it's going to get fragmented pretty quickly. I was amazed after the first few months of using my MacBook that everything was still as smooth running and as quick loading up as it was on day one.

Feek · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:14

When you say that OS X has "no built in defragger" you're right in some respects. It has no built in hard drive defragger that you can get your hands on! The nature of the disk filing system keeps fragmentation minimised.

Here's a fragmentation report from iDefrag on my home drive. Since rebuilding my system when Snow Leopard came out, I don't think I've actually defragmented at all, there's just no need.

Unless you fill a drive to practically full, you simply don't need to defragment your hard drive on a Mac, the OS will keep it tidy.

J1234 · 4 Mar 2010 at 20:25

Absolutely no need to defrag a Mac HDD.

StoutMeister · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:05

I don't defrag or ever feel the need too, thankfully.

artaxerxes · 5 Mar 2010 at 10:48

Occasionally I restore from a carbon clopy cloner image, this is essentially perfect defragging for free. Not noticed much difference (even on less than 10% free) disks afterwards except possibly the placebo of Snappy(TM).

DTWD · 6 Mar 2010 at 07:24

Doesn't the MAC run some sort of defrag after installing something?

I don't install much on mine at work, it's purely there for checking websites on, but if I remember correctly I am sure the standard Mac installer thing says something about defragging when it's finishing.

Blackhawk47 · 6 Mar 2010 at 09:51

DTWD said:
Doesn't the MAC run some sort of defrag after installing something?

Well I have read that Mac OS X has a number of things working in the background to clean up/prevent the need for things like defrag. Or maybe its down the files system, I don't know - but not needed it on my Macbook and that runs/multitasks faster than my more than able bodied PC.

eatcustard · 7 Mar 2010 at 08:39

Mac's have a better file system, so defragging is a little pointless