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Can an IMAC hard drive be de fragmentize

Oct 9, 2006 11:45AM PDT

Does the Imac have a disk defragmenter like the pc's?

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Link about.
Oct 9, 2006 11:53AM PDT
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iDefrag 2.0.5 Performance Review
Sep 16, 2011 1:06PM PDT

Well I did my homework, heard a lot of good things about iDeFrag, decided to give it a try.

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yes/no
Oct 11, 2006 10:17AM PDT

It depends on what OS you are using, if you have OS X then you don't need to but if you have and earlier OS then you may have to, that's all that I know sorry if this didn't help.

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No you iMac drive shouldn't need defrag
Oct 13, 2006 3:21AM PDT

If you have an iMac that is running one of the latest versions of OSX either 10

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iDefrag
Oct 13, 2006 3:54AM PDT

For the most part defragmentation is not necessary in OS X. However, if you are like me and need to get maximum performance from your machine and are also a neat freak and like everything orderly on your hard drive, I recommend using iDefrag. It is fairly inexpensive and does the job.

I love it, neat, neat, neat.

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/

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Defrag Macs, et al...
Oct 13, 2006 5:36AM PDT

The responses to this inquiry so far should not be surprising to any one who has had to use UNIX as the OS for their system. A decade ago I asked this same question as a PC user who was forced to use an HP/UX system to run a turn-key application for my company. The standard answer from our UNIX guru was that UNIX didn't need no stinking defrager. However, if I did happened to run across a defrager for UNIX; would I please be sure to let them know about it... go figure.

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OS X is not Unix
Oct 13, 2006 4:48PM PDT

Unix and Linux don't need defragmenting unless you're low on disk space; and indeed, there are only a few defragmentation programs for them.

This is because of the clever way that the native Unix and Linux filesystems (like Ext3, ReiserFS etc) position the files.

Mac OS X uses HFS+ as its native filesystem. Unfortunately, HFS+ is not as clever, and it does require defragmenting from time to time.

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YAh
Oct 14, 2006 2:25AM PDT

Yaeh, sometimes it just looks like MacOS doesn't need any defragmenting tool or firewall, but there are many out there for Macs and people just use them for fun.

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Disc Utility
Nov 1, 2006 3:40AM PST

Open Disc Utility to first aid to tighten hard drive and do the external storage and hard drives as well. Go through all the steps with It (verify and repair). Restart computer afterwards. Computer will perform much better.

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Disk Utility
Nov 1, 2006 3:48AM PST

is a simple repair utility that will not defrag the hard drive, internal or external.
It will perform minor repairs on any drive that the computer is not booted from. It will not repair the boot disk.

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iDefrag 2.0.5 Review
Sep 16, 2011 1:11PM PDT

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> Might have put this up somewhere else. Check on page 1

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Why?
Sep 16, 2011 11:15PM PDT

Why? It's a completely useless program. Defragmenting hasn't been necessary for probably the past decade or longer. It delivers a very small, if that, performance gain which is fleeting at best. Of course if there are people stupid enough to buy something, there will be someone unscrupulous enough to sell it to them.

Norton's SpeedDisk program had at least the idea that it put certain files in locations on the drive's surface so as to take advantage of angular velocity, but even that is going to have minimal effect.

Unless your idea of fun is sitting around with a stop watch and performing actions repeatedly, you'll never notice the difference pre and post defragmenting. The whole thing will be psychosomatic. You expect there will be some change, and so you will convince yourself that the change took place, regardless of any actual evidence. Even if you had a stop watch, the improvements would likely be below the human reflex threshold, so you couldn't measure them accurately anyway.

Honestly... If you sit around worrying that much about a few milliseconds, then you should probably go seek some professional help. You very likely have obsessive compulsive disorder, and if that much isn't news to you, then your therapist needs to adjust your treatment because what they're doing isn't working.