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Idefrag review
Idefrag review












My Mac was not super slow before the defrag. This is a very unscientific test, but it seems that I at least gained some reboot time after defragmenting my hard drive.

idefrag review

  • Timed how long it took my Mac to reboot on the third reboot = 1:08.
  • Used Time Machine to backup my newly defragmented hard drive.
  • Rebooted my Mac a couple of times because iDefrag said after a defrag, the Mac needs to rebuild some things.
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  • Ran iDrefrag, using the full defrag option, which took about 16 hours.
  • Timed how long it took my Mac to reboot = 1:30.
  • Once my hard drive was good to go according to OS X's apps, I used Time Machine to back it up again.
  • Used OS X's disk utility to repair the hard drive because errors were found on it.
  • Used OS X's disk utility app to repair permissions on my hard drive.
  • Which made me want to defrag my Mac, so I did.įirst, I bought the iDefrag app. So I looked online to see what people thought, and most people thought it was unnecessary to defrag a Mac. Yesterday I felt compelled to give it a checkup.

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    My current Mac is an early 2008 MacBook Pro with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 4 GB of RAM, with an upgraded 7200 RPM 500 GB hard drive that I installed several years ago. I was always told that Macs maintain themselves well enough to not require the user to defragment a Mac hard drive. I have only ever owned Macs, and I have never tried defragmenting a Mac hard drive before.












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