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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 975635" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I hate to outright dispute this, but a defrag on OS X is (or can be) the exact same thing as on a Windows drive. With iDefrag in particular, there are 5 levels of defrag options, with the "full defrag" option moving everything to the front and rearranging files most-frequently accessed to the very front. And while I can appreciate that everyone won't necessarily benefit from a defrag in OS X (OS X does auto-defrag very small files), I have seen very tangible improvements for myself. In one case, it was the only thing that restored my old Powerbook to sane boot times (which was well in excess of 5 minutes). Most recently, it resolved issues I was having streaming videos to my HTPC. Took two full overnight runs to defrag that drive completely.. *whew*</p><p></p><p>However, the SuperDuper tip is a nice and dirty trick to compact everything contiguously for the purposes of repartitioning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 975635, member: 38864"] I hate to outright dispute this, but a defrag on OS X is (or can be) the exact same thing as on a Windows drive. With iDefrag in particular, there are 5 levels of defrag options, with the "full defrag" option moving everything to the front and rearranging files most-frequently accessed to the very front. And while I can appreciate that everyone won't necessarily benefit from a defrag in OS X (OS X does auto-defrag very small files), I have seen very tangible improvements for myself. In one case, it was the only thing that restored my old Powerbook to sane boot times (which was well in excess of 5 minutes). Most recently, it resolved issues I was having streaming videos to my HTPC. Took two full overnight runs to defrag that drive completely.. *whew* However, the SuperDuper tip is a nice and dirty trick to compact everything contiguously for the purposes of repartitioning. [/QUOTE]
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