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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 406798"><p>Halcyon, I dunno what others think about this, but I personally would not invest in TechTool. You already have bundled with every new Mac Apple's Hardware Test and I seem to recall in pre-OS X days that TechTool made a big thing out of being able to defrag the hard drive and it did it very well too. I bought TechTool Pro back then. </p><p></p><p>But now with OS X, you don't need to <a href="http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/190237" target="_blank"><strong>defragmenting the hard drive</strong></a>, OS X does this on its own: at least for any file that is smaller than 20MB. This is true unless your hard drive is filled up to the gills, in which case defragmenting would be quite useful to speed up the system.</p><p></p><p>So to me, TechTool isn't a must-have like it once was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 406798"] Halcyon, I dunno what others think about this, but I personally would not invest in TechTool. You already have bundled with every new Mac Apple's Hardware Test and I seem to recall in pre-OS X days that TechTool made a big thing out of being able to defrag the hard drive and it did it very well too. I bought TechTool Pro back then. But now with OS X, you don't need to [URL="http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/190237"][B]defragmenting the hard drive[/B][/URL], OS X does this on its own: at least for any file that is smaller than 20MB. This is true unless your hard drive is filled up to the gills, in which case defragmenting would be quite useful to speed up the system. So to me, TechTool isn't a must-have like it once was. [/QUOTE]
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