On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
> On another forum I have seen opinions that defragging of OS X hard > drives is > both unnecessary and even harmful? OS X already minimizes fragmentation as a normal part of the OS, and frankly, there's been little advantage to defragging any system since the days when hard drives were measured in megabytes. Defragging can be harmful because you're futzing around with the whole disk...something screws up and your system can be rendered unbootable or worse. Generally speaking, the ONLY times actually defragging is valuable these days is when you have lots of file additions and deletions near the capacity of the drive. About the only time that happens these days is when you're doing things like editing video or doing FX for video, etc. Much simpler there to use a scratch disk to hold all the project files and reformat the scratch disk between projects. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
