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Defragment internal drive on MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1507199" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>In your case - you should never defragment a SSD. You are shortening it's lifespan by doing so.</p><p></p><p>Because you are using a SSD, you can quit reading about defragging OS X and start doing some research on defragging a SSD drive - it's a no no.</p><p></p><p></p><p>(Will add that I do defrag my personal OS X HDD machine - that author is still wrong in suggesting the general OS X user should pick up the practice of defragging their drive once a month - what a waste of time - that one item right there indicates that author is a Windows user that has not spent much time at all actually using Macs, nor in the Mac communities. Defragging a HDD "might" be of benefit because it reads sequentially - not random as a SSD.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1507199, member: 24160"] In your case - you should never defragment a SSD. You are shortening it's lifespan by doing so. Because you are using a SSD, you can quit reading about defragging OS X and start doing some research on defragging a SSD drive - it's a no no. (Will add that I do defrag my personal OS X HDD machine - that author is still wrong in suggesting the general OS X user should pick up the practice of defragging their drive once a month - what a waste of time - that one item right there indicates that author is a Windows user that has not spent much time at all actually using Macs, nor in the Mac communities. Defragging a HDD "might" be of benefit because it reads sequentially - not random as a SSD.) [/QUOTE]
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