This is what many people would call “Free Space Fragmentation”. So as you fill up your hard drive, move or delete files you will get more and more empty spaces all over your storage space. As soon as you delete data, you will remove some building blocks, but the space remains empty for the time being. When you start filling your hard drive you will add your building blocks from top left to top right, and when you reach the end start a new row, and so you continue. Think of your hard-drive as a two dimensional rectangular space and think of your data as little square building-blocks. Your hard drive constantly changes – a new email arrives, there is a change to your hard drive, visit, there is another change to your hard drive (the browser cache), when you delete something… you get the picture. What is “fragmentation” and how does it happen?
#Where to find idefrag mac os x#
Now with Windows XP and its NTFS file system this isn’t as urgent a problem as it used to be, but it remains a habit.īeing relatively new to Mac OS X and the HFS+ file system I started to wonder whether it was necessary to do my Mac a favor and defragment it’s hard drive? I couldn’t find a defragmentation tool installed, so I started to read up on the Internet and most people kind of agree to disagree on the question of disk optimization.
Users of Windows have funny habits, for example, we like to start our working days with updating the virus and spyware definitions and once every quarter or so most of us go and defragment our hard drives. In my private life there is (virtually) no room for a windows machine, though I continue to use a Dell laptop for work. I have used a Windows powered PC for much longer than a Mac, and the Mac just blown me away.
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