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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1031816" data-attributes="member: 4134">&quot;Might&quot; and &quot;bit&quot; being the operative words. You're looking at such small time savings (fractions of a second here and there) that you'll never get back the hours it takes to defrag.Unless, as you said, you're working with lots of multi-gigabyte files. Basically, you'd have to be capturing and editing video on your Mac to see that happen. In which case, you really ought to look into a separate scratch disk.Defragging won't make a noticeable difference if your Mac is running out of space. It's a drop in the bucket; if your hard disk is filling up, it's time to get a bigger one, end of story.Mainly, defragging is about human sensibilities. The type-As among us like to have their bits and bytes in neat little rows with every extent butting up against the next. Never mind that that has nothing to do with the way computers run. Defragging tools show us a scary picture full of angry colors.&nbsp;&nbsp; Using something that turns those angry blocks into orderly rows gives us a comforting feeling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1031816, member: 4134"] "Might" and "bit" being the operative words. You're looking at such small time savings (fractions of a second here and there) that you'll never get back the hours it takes to defrag. Unless, as you said, you're working with [i]lots[/i] of multi-gigabyte files. Basically, you'd have to be capturing and editing video on your Mac to see that happen. In which case, you really ought to look into a separate scratch disk. Defragging won't make a noticeable difference if your Mac is running out of space. It's a drop in the bucket; if your hard disk is filling up, it's time to get a bigger one, end of story. Mainly, defragging is about human sensibilities. The type-As among us like to have their bits and bytes in neat little rows with every extent butting up against the next. Never mind that that has nothing to do with the way computers run. Defragging tools show us a scary picture full of angry colors. Using something that turns those angry blocks into orderly rows gives us a comforting feeling. [/QUOTE]

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