Can you run some kind of Defragmenter on a Mac?

[scaredpoet]

I'm sorry, but to say you don't have to defragment a Windows NTFS drive is completely wrong.

Read Saltyzoo's comment. It's correct. As to whether or not you insist I'm wrong, that's your prerogative, and if you want to waste your time defragging constantly, then by all means be my guest.

Just run a scan of Diskeeper

Pay anywhere fro $29.99 to $99.99, depending on my desired level of paranoia, so that a piece of software can try to convince me that parting with my money was a swell idea? No thanks.

 

[martychang]

Read Saltyzoo's comment. It's correct. As to whether or not you insist I'm wrong, that's your prerogative, and if you want to waste your time defragging constantly, then by all means be my guest.



Pay anywhere fro $29.99 to $99.99, depending on my desired level of paranoia, so that a piece of software can try to convince me that parting with my money was a swell idea? No thanks.

If you defrag every day, defragging will take at worst 30 seconds for the entire process. I can sink 30 seconds a day to know that I'm performing my best.

Diskeeper Lite is free, not trialware, and is equally good compared to the versions they charge for as far as I can determine. It just pops up very infrequently reminding you how cool it'd be if you actually paid them for the product

I'm really frightened now having read that HFS+ and NTFS use the same anti-fragmentation algorithm, that basically means all the "doesn't need to be defragged!" REALLY IS a pile of steam. 30 seconds a day people.... sheesh

 

[saltyzoo]

I'm really frightened now having read that HFS+ and NTFS use the same anti-fragmentation algorithm, that basically means all the "doesn't need to be defragged!" REALLY IS a pile of steam. 30 seconds a day people.... sheesh

Unless you are dealing with a lot of huge files, and lots of tiny files, you don't really need to worry that much about fragmentation on either FS. But neither FS prevents fragmentation - nor would you want your FS to do so - unless you like sitting and watching the infamous beach ball for 10 minutes with no warning.

 

[tmoney468]

Read Saltyzoo's comment. It's correct. As to whether or not you insist I'm wrong, that's your prerogative, and if you want to waste your time defragging constantly, then by all means be my guest.

Pay anywhere fro $29.99 to $99.99, depending on my desired level of paranoia, so that a piece of software can try to convince me that parting with my money was a swell idea? No thanks.

I'm not going to debate whether or not defragging is worth it or not. I know for me that it is worth it and it does improve the performance of my PC.

I/O performance is strongly influenced by the layout of files on disk. Files and directories that are heavily fragmented or dispersed across the disk will hurt performance. While Windows XP will automatically reposition some files to improve performance, this will generally be done infrequently and will usually include only a small fraction of the files on the disk. Therefore, it is a good idea to defragment the disk following an installation.

Once every three days, by default, Windows XP will perform a partial defragmentation and adjust the layout of the disk based upon current use. The files to be moved are written in the file Layout.ini

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457057.aspx