yogi said:The basic reason why it isn't necessary is that Macs (and other modern Unixes) use a journaled file system called HFS+ (or ReiserFS or others). Windows relies on it's ancient NTFS which is really horrible. Welcome to the 21st century.
Avalon said:OS X defragments files on the fly, that's why a disk doesn't get fragmented, unless it start becoming too full.
Avalon said:And, historically speaking, HFS+ exists since OS 8.1 or 8.5 I think, so it's not less ancient than NTFS...
dohidied said:actually, NTFS has been around since the debut of Windows NT in 1993. And HFS+ has been around since OS 8.1 in 1998.
Aptmunich said:Actually AFAIK vista will be introducing sheduled regular defragmentations (Sunday at 4a.m. - yay waste more electricity in offices - please!), I haven't heard anything about mini-defrags after installs in vista yet...
Le Fumeur said:Wow. Yet another great thing about Mac!
Avalon said:Scheduled defragmentations...that's not a way to solve fragmentation problems...but the typical way MS works:
Don't change old things, no, just try to "improve" them...