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Refurbished Macs any recommendations UK
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1809981" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Patrick:</p><p></p><p>For years I used the handy iDefrag program to defrag my internal hard drives and it worked well. Although the Mac file system is more resistant to fragmentation than the PC file systems, Mac hard drives do fragment over time especially as drive space begins to diminish.</p><p></p><p>However, nowadays with PCIe and SSD drives, defragmentation is not recommended. I'm not sure what harm can come about if you attempt to defrag those drives, but even the developer of iDefrag warned against using his program on them. As a matter of fact, iDefrag and iPartition are no longer being developed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1809981, member: 46727"] Patrick: For years I used the handy iDefrag program to defrag my internal hard drives and it worked well. Although the Mac file system is more resistant to fragmentation than the PC file systems, Mac hard drives do fragment over time especially as drive space begins to diminish. However, nowadays with PCIe and SSD drives, defragmentation is not recommended. I'm not sure what harm can come about if you attempt to defrag those drives, but even the developer of iDefrag warned against using his program on them. As a matter of fact, iDefrag and iPartition are no longer being developed. [/QUOTE]
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