defrag the hdd

[technologist]

Maybe apple says OSX defrags on the fly, or something like that. But whenever I check for fragmented files, I find a LOT.
There is a suite of tools called SpeedTools. Part of it is an app called Disk Defrag™. It's small, light, fast, just gets the job done.

How many, really, on a percentage basis?

 

[mac57]

technologist, I have SpeedTools as well, but have never used the defrag - got it for disk benchmarking. Do you notice any speed improvement in your Mac after defrag'ing?

BTW, I must just be a bozo, but I see that there are updates available for my copy of SpeedTools (which I purchased, full retail), but I see no way to download and apply them. What am I missing?

 

[mac57]

dahhhh... ignore that last "BTW". I found the download "button" on the shelf that slides out with update information. It is not obvious what it is - could be much better labelled, but it does work.

 

[giulio]

How many, really, on a percentage basis?

I just ran a check...

4 KB block size
74 GB drive
41 GB free (45%)
250042 files

Files w/ fragmented forks: 307
Files w/ non-seq forks: 45
Percent fragmentation: 0.14%

Not too bad today.