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External HD Partions w/ Disk Utility
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1552866" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>I also haven't used iDefrag in some time - primarily due to my primary Mac now having an SSD.</p><p></p><p>I use SD! in lieu of CCC. But, I've only used the cloned backup to reclone to my internal twice.</p><p>Once after playing around with system files I shouldn't have and screwed up OS X.</p><p></p><p>The other time doing an experiment with a 70% full 500 GB drive where I was noticing the typical slow downs I've historically seen at that point - restoring from SD! and then running iDefrag just to compare the 2 of them related to boot/app launch times as well as overall feel of speed improvements between the 2.</p><p></p><p>In that case, a restore from the clone did improve boot/app launch times marginally and did provide a little peppier experience just due to giving me back the contiguous free space - running iDefrag afterwards took it to a whole other level cutting boot times by >20% - and pretty much eliminating any app bouncing on launch.</p><p></p><p>I have tended to keep old versions of OS X around in those clones - up until the drive finally died a few weeks ago, I still had my last clones prior to upgrading from 10.4 all the way through 10.7.</p><p></p><p>Other restores have all been done with a clean install, clean installing apps and manually migrating data from the clone or using Time Machine</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1552866, member: 24160"] I also haven't used iDefrag in some time - primarily due to my primary Mac now having an SSD. I use SD! in lieu of CCC. But, I've only used the cloned backup to reclone to my internal twice. Once after playing around with system files I shouldn't have and screwed up OS X. The other time doing an experiment with a 70% full 500 GB drive where I was noticing the typical slow downs I've historically seen at that point - restoring from SD! and then running iDefrag just to compare the 2 of them related to boot/app launch times as well as overall feel of speed improvements between the 2. In that case, a restore from the clone did improve boot/app launch times marginally and did provide a little peppier experience just due to giving me back the contiguous free space - running iDefrag afterwards took it to a whole other level cutting boot times by >20% - and pretty much eliminating any app bouncing on launch. I have tended to keep old versions of OS X around in those clones - up until the drive finally died a few weeks ago, I still had my last clones prior to upgrading from 10.4 all the way through 10.7. Other restores have all been done with a clean install, clean installing apps and manually migrating data from the clone or using Time Machine [/QUOTE]
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