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defrag

  1. J

    External hard drive defragging/optimization?

    I've often heard that Macs don't need to be defragged, but I have a 8tb external usb drive that is getting slow; when I open a folder sometimes I need to wait a few seconds to see the contents (when the drive is mounted and awake). I still have 5tb available on this drive. At this link I saw...
  2. Glassed Silver

    Defragging OS X El Capitan partition?

    Hey guys, I've tried to get some best practices (/programs) for defragging my Mac, or more specifically, my El Cap partition (shared with a Bootcamp partition hosting Windows 7 and of course the usual recovery partition for OS X). I've tried Drive Genius 3 once, but it caused problems. Well...