At 12:57 PM -0400 10/22/2008, insightinmind wrote: > > That is, leave the 750 GB FW hard drive as it was, except perhaps >> to defragment it, though >> likely not helpful anyway. > >I meant to add, I think OS X keeps things orderly,
yes. It tries. And the HFS+ design naturally fragments less than others. >so defragmenting is not necessary. Most of the defrag that is necessary is already done automatically by the OS. Wholescale defragging is only necessary in certain environments ... for example: If you slap a million files onto a volume, delete half, manipulate them a lot, add another million etc... Essentially creating a situation where the fragmentation would get worse and worse and the system could never catch up fixing it on its own. In the "old days" we liked to keep volumes that had a lot of video stuff defragged. That's because if the file was too fragmented, its playback performance suffered. But between i/o and cpu speeds these days, even that's not really an issue anymore. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
