defrag mac?
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Of course defragmentation of HFS+ volumes is beneficial, as Apple only tells you part of the story. The system handles on-the-fly defragmentation of files up to 20MB only. The system doesn't defragment files that are in use.
How many people were surprised they couldn't partition their disk for Boot Camp despite having sufficient disk space? How come defragmentation solves their problem?
If you think you see the beach ball more often than you would've liked, you might want to try defragmenting.
iDefrag is good, I hear DriveGenius is better.
There is another way though: clone your drive to an external one (using ie. Carbon Copy Cloner, free) and either swap drives after that or run the system from the external drive and clone it back to the main one. The files will come back nicely arranged, just like after a defragmentation.Even Apple agrees it can be helpful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT13…More info:
http://discussions.apple.com/mes…- Another Carbon Copy Cloner benefit is that you end up with a full backup drive that you can add backups incrementally to laterrafalski