Mar 25, 2009 01:50 pm iDefrag. Very nice, relatively cheap.
Is there a disk defrag and/or scandisk equiv for Macs?
Posted on Mar 25, 2009 08:56 am
Indellable
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Just checking to see if there is any periodic maintenance I should be doing on my Mac - similar to how you would delete temporary internet files, run scand disk and disk defragmenter every so often on a PC. Thanks.
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Mar 25, 2009 01:50 pm iDefrag. Very nice, relatively cheap.
Mar 25, 2009 11:41 pm From what I understand about Mac. Defrag isn't needed. They already file accordingly... Not just throw **** wherever. I could be wrong though.
Mar 26, 2009 06:59 am I think the auto-defrag properties of HFS+ require that the file be less than 20MB ... NTFS is probably similar...
Mar 26, 2009 08:41 am I just defragged a NTFS 160 GB drive the other day that was 48% fragmented. It was all small files, way smaller than 20 MB. So I'm not sure that NTFS does any sort of smart filing. Or at least I don't have it enabled on this disk. It took forever too, like 8 hours! I don't think I've ever had that severe of fragmentation on a drive before.
Mar 26, 2009 08:45 am When I got to the job I am currently in, none of the servers were ever defragged...I use jkDefrag myself and I put it on the servers over a holiday weekend.
Our file repository share didn't even finish defragging over a 3 day weekend...it was a mess...once I defragged the servers it was amazing how much quicker things were...
I now have certain drives scheduled to defrag every weekend...
Mar 26, 2009 03:54 pm Vista, autodefrag every morning at 12am. Takes little to no time as fragmentation never gets out of hand and therefore reduces long amounts of strain on my HDD.
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