At 10:01 AM -0700 7/28/2011, Cliff Rediger wrote:
Back in the OS 9 days defragging seemed essential at least on my 5300 PB.
yes.
Now in Tiger and above, I'm wondering if it remains a useful or even necessary maintenance option.
Search our group archives. We have discussed this, in detail, repeatedly. The HFS+file system in OS X doesn't fragment like the old one did, and... Tiger and newer have mechanisms built-in that handle the defragging in the background.
I suppose there are more than one defrag softwares out there. This is the one that showed up on MacZot http://www.stellardefragdrive.com/
Yea. It's a lost market looking to make $ off of the unwashed masses. While yer at it, buy the most expensive anti-virus package you can find.
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