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macOS - Desktop Hardware
Speeding up a Mac Pro desktop
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 709283" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I agree with everything Chilbear says. That is much how my internal drives are set up. Just make sure your startup drive is a nice, speedy model running at 7500 rpm or faster. In addition, you may want to consider getting a defragger like iDefrag. In spite of what many people here say, OS X volumes CAN get fragmented, and very severely. Myself in particular... my Powerbook had been increasingly giving me fits of sluggishness recently, taking several minutes just to boot up. After all else failed, I did a full defrag and optimize and it's back to normal.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Oh yes, pick up a utility like <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070" target="_blank">Onyx</a> or <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31818" target="_blank">Ice Clean</a> to run those various maintenance tasks. Both are free and work fabulously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 709283, member: 38864"] I agree with everything Chilbear says. That is much how my internal drives are set up. Just make sure your startup drive is a nice, speedy model running at 7500 rpm or faster. In addition, you may want to consider getting a defragger like iDefrag. In spite of what many people here say, OS X volumes CAN get fragmented, and very severely. Myself in particular... my Powerbook had been increasingly giving me fits of sluggishness recently, taking several minutes just to boot up. After all else failed, I did a full defrag and optimize and it's back to normal. EDIT: Oh yes, pick up a utility like [URL="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070"]Onyx[/URL] or [URL="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31818"]Ice Clean[/URL] to run those various maintenance tasks. Both are free and work fabulously. [/QUOTE]
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