Hey consultant, I read and enjoy your posts here, what's your take on disk warrior may I ask?
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Hey consultant, I read and enjoy your posts here, what's your take on disk warrior may I ask?
Is that the same as PRAM reset? I only ask I have limited internet access at the moment! PRAM should Command-Option-P-R all together while the computer boots which should restart the computer straight after.
Glad the programs saved you a little space!
i always believed that defragging wouldn't make a difference since os-x is made to do this "on its own".. But I always like keeping my stuff at it's ultimate state.. not only computers but cars. Ps3 etc.
I went ahead and got idefrag, but i found out right away that i had to boot up from an external drive... i went ahead and installed os-x on my firewire 800 hdd that i use for Time Machine and went ahead and did a FULL DEFRAG not an online defrag, that didn't do anything.
Sure enough my hdd was pretty fragmented with some big gaps.. this might not be a big issue but idefrag went ahead and put all the the start-up files together and compacted everything else...
Guess what, I shorted my boot up time by 8 seconds.. if you've installed cs4 i'm sure a defrag wouldn't hurt..
Overall I dunno if spending $20 is an option for you for idefrag even thou i found my copy at a certain bay and it worked great... Another thing was that i replaced my hdd from a 320gb to 1tb the boot up time even with bigger hdd got shorter after the defrag.
Even thou i put to sleep my imac all the time even over night.. i only shut off if i'm gonna be out of my house for over 24hrs.. being that the imac only uses suppodsedly 3watts while sleep.. according to the energy consumption by apple.. even thou people who have measured it with a meter say that it uses around 14-17watts.. that's still a very low consumption.
It you want a very fast boot up by a 640gb Velociraptor which spins at 10,000rpms.. may produce a bit more heat but performance will increase along with boot up times to around 25 seconds to boot up..
And there's the ultimate SSD hdd which are way too expensive right now but you can increase your bootup time to like 15 - 18 seconds.
Hope this helps
I went ahead and got idefrag, but i found out right away that i had to boot up from an external drive... i went ahead and installed os-x on my firewire 800 hdd that i use for Time Machine and went ahead and did a FULL DEFRAG not an online defrag, that didn't do anything.
Sure enough my hdd was pretty fragmented with some big gaps.. this might not be a big issue but idefrag went ahead and put all the the start-up files together and compacted everything else...
Guess what, I shorted my boot up time by 8 seconds.. if you've installed cs4 i'm sure a defrag wouldn't hurt..
Overall I dunno if spending $20 is an option for you for idefrag even thou i found my copy at a certain bay and it worked great... Another thing was that i replaced my hdd from a 320gb to 1tb the boot up time even with bigger hdd got shorter after the defrag.
Even thou i put to sleep my imac all the time even over night.. i only shut off if i'm gonna be out of my house for over 24hrs.. being that the imac only uses suppodsedly 3watts while sleep.. according to the energy consumption by apple.. even thou people who have measured it with a meter say that it uses around 14-17watts.. that's still a very low consumption.
It you want a very fast boot up by a 640gb Velociraptor which spins at 10,000rpms.. may produce a bit more heat but performance will increase along with boot up times to around 25 seconds to boot up..
And there's the ultimate SSD hdd which are way too expensive right now but you can increase your bootup time to like 15 - 18 seconds.
Hope this helps
I used Drive Genius and booted it from the DVD and ran the full defrag, which took about 2-3 hours.
Already have the 1tb HD and not going to open up Mac to replace drive.
I was expecting the full defrag to have helped a little but it didn't. I have over 250-300gb of applications on the HD now, maybe thats whats slowed it down.
Whats your average boot up time Tony?
Already have the 1tb HD and not going to open up Mac to replace drive.
I was expecting the full defrag to have helped a little but it didn't. I have over 250-300gb of applications on the HD now, maybe thats whats slowed it down.
Whats your average boot up time Tony?
A Brand new imac average bootup time is 30 -33 seconds..
After i defragged mine it took around 28 seconds with iDefrag, didn't try Drive genius.
With as many programs as you i would think around 43 seconds...
What brand hdd did you install? What's the rpms on it? is it a 5400?
Also... sometimes it takes almost a minute for my imac to boot up, very rare thou.. usually when it takes longer than the usual 5 seconds to shut down means is gonna take longer to boot up..
I just tested my 4850 Radeon iMac 2.93 with stock hard drive, RAM, etc. Took one full minute from the boot chime till the desktop was up. It was slow for about another 10 seconds after that as you could tell it was still getting things loaded up into memory.
It might have been a bit faster when I first got it but I haven't really noticed. I've also set up Boot Camp with Win 7 on it as well as loading quite a few applications including Office, Lightroom, etc.
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Also worth noting that I have six network shares in my startup items.
It might have been a bit faster when I first got it but I haven't really noticed. I've also set up Boot Camp with Win 7 on it as well as loading quite a few applications including Office, Lightroom, etc.
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Also worth noting that I have six network shares in my startup items.
Thanks for the times Tony, when I first got the iMac it was around 30-35seconds. Everything thing is stock as per my signature.
Think it might be worth trying iDefrag
I don't have anything networked to my Mac, do you think the network shares slow down the boot time?
Think it might be worth trying iDefrag
I don't have anything networked to my Mac, do you think the network shares slow down the boot time?
I have no idea I just figured that it was worth mentioning. I don't really notice the boot time but I'm sure that after I installed software, set up start up items, etc, it doesn't boot quite as fast as it does when it's got nothing set up on it.