Comments on: Defragmenting a Mac Hard Disk

By: Gus Rancatore

Gus Rancatore — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:32:41 +0000

Dear Mr. Mossberg,

My business is thinking of switching to an online version of Quickbooks. Quickbooks suggests using Bootcamp or a virtualization program. Is this worthwhile or should I just buy a PC and use it for bookkeeping?

Gus Rancatore
Tscanini’s

By: Per Sjofors

Per Sjofors — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:30:23 +0000

Just out of curiosity I used defrag software for my 4 year old dual CPU G5 desktop. It ran for a very long time, and in the end made no difference in the disc access speed… and I have lots of large files.

There is a very useful tool for the Mac called OmniDiskSweeper. This identifies folders with large files, and large files themselves, allowing the user a very easy way to delete duplicate folders or files

By: Nicolas Martin

Nicolas Martin — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:11:20 +0000

Given my recent experiences using Western Digital drives with my Macs, I think more often of fragging them than defragging them.

By: stani everett

stani everett — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:26:24 +0000

excellent – so, i just pay MORE money to defrag what doesn’t need to be defragged, wait – - – or – - – defrag with a 3rd a . . . wait . . . . i need different software for ? . . . . oh, heck w/it – I’m happy i bought a mac LOL

By: Tony Martin

Tony Martin — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:36:05 +0000

No need to buy a drive to transfer data from one pc to another. Network the computers, or use a server over the internet.

By: Albert Koh

Albert Koh — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:23:00 +0000

A quick comment about defragging in Windows: these days, the user does not need to! If you install one of the newer automatic defragmenters, it will intelligently and automatically defrag files in the background as required; without any hit in performance. Quite similar to the OSX I believe. Scheduling a defrag on Windows (XP or Vista) is now a thing of the past.

Regards,
-Albert.