The persistent slow speed of my Mac was a pain in the neck. I was flabbergasted by the way things were going on. Even the most lightweight applications took a considerable amount of time to show up their first login screen on my desk. I was indeed puzzled whether to perform a full hard disk clean up or to go about upgrading my system processor. Certainly, I wasn't expecting a hard drive failure. But, I wanted to speed up my Mac and restore its original healthy state.
I refrained from cleaning up my hard drive as every file was important and needed to be there. So, the most apt solution was defragmentation. My Mac was getting older and there was a huge collection of old files on the hard drive. These files existed since the time I bought the machine. As the hard drive was getting cluttered up with more and more new files, I didn't realize that my files were getting fragmented quickly. This was probably due to creation of new regions of free space each time an existing file was deleted or truncated. So, I headed for a safe disk defragmentation in order to get a real performance booster.
Defragmentation is necessary not only to bring the scattered file fragments together on the disk, but for optimizing the available free space to prevent further fragmentation of the files. There are various viewpoints through which defragmentation can be considered as fruitful. It makes the system significantly faster as the data is grouped together and easy to access. Additionally, it is critical for an extended life of the hard drive. By keeping all the data at one place, it reduces the physical disk activity required for read/write operations.
I found out that Mac OS X itself has a unique way of handling file fragmentation. It rewrites files with more than eight fragments and with the total size up to 20 MB in contiguous locations on the disk. As my problem was more serious, I opted for commercial third-party disk defragmenter utilities. It was then that I came across Drive Toolbox for Mac. This software has an excellent utility named 'Drive Defrag' that helped me to defrag my complete Mac hard drive (including the boot volume) within a considerably short span of time. This Drive Toolbox for Mac also incorporates a number of other utilities, including 'SpeedUp Mac', 'Volume Repair', 'Drive Clone', 'Partition Manager', etc.
I refrained from cleaning up my hard drive as every file was important and needed to be there. So, the most apt solution was defragmentation. My Mac was getting older and there was a huge collection of old files on the hard drive. These files existed since the time I bought the machine. As the hard drive was getting cluttered up with more and more new files, I didn't realize that my files were getting fragmented quickly. This was probably due to creation of new regions of free space each time an existing file was deleted or truncated. So, I headed for a safe disk defragmentation in order to get a real performance booster.
Defragmentation is necessary not only to bring the scattered file fragments together on the disk, but for optimizing the available free space to prevent further fragmentation of the files. There are various viewpoints through which defragmentation can be considered as fruitful. It makes the system significantly faster as the data is grouped together and easy to access. Additionally, it is critical for an extended life of the hard drive. By keeping all the data at one place, it reduces the physical disk activity required for read/write operations.
I found out that Mac OS X itself has a unique way of handling file fragmentation. It rewrites files with more than eight fragments and with the total size up to 20 MB in contiguous locations on the disk. As my problem was more serious, I opted for commercial third-party disk defragmenter utilities. It was then that I came across Drive Toolbox for Mac. This software has an excellent utility named 'Drive Defrag' that helped me to defrag my complete Mac hard drive (including the boot volume) within a considerably short span of time. This Drive Toolbox for Mac also incorporates a number of other utilities, including 'SpeedUp Mac', 'Volume Repair', 'Drive Clone', 'Partition Manager', etc.
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