I purchased Norton Utilities and Drive 10 for Mac. Both have a defragment utility. Both of these took around 6 hours to complete on my dual G4 1.4MHZ, 80GB hard drive. Both also completely screwed up my system to the point of reinstallation. I have completely given up on any of these tools and consider myself to have wasted over $200.00 on nothing of any value.
On Oct 26, 2003, at 6:44 PM, Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote: >> I've never gotten a complete answer on the value of defragmenting >> under >> OS X either. For the longest time I didn't think there _were_ any >> utilities to do this in X. Having never defragged my hard disk I >> shudder >> to think of what it looks like at this point. > > Tid-Bits did an article a while ago which basically said that with > modern > hard disks, there's no point in defragging. Generally, the defragging > process itself takes more time to accomplish than the performance gains > you'll achieve with it, and with the risk of data loss that accompanies > it, it's basically worthless. > > See <http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07254> > > --- > > Scott T. Hards > President > HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com) > >
