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    Onyx - How to defrag?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Aug 23, 2007.

  1. passive101

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    I downloaded ONYX, but I don't see where the option to defrag the hard drive is. Could someone please help me out with this?
     
    passive101, Aug 23, 2007
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    i think auslogic is better, try that
     
    aan310, Aug 23, 2007
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    Check the forum you're in first :p
    Although if we're talking Windows, I prefer Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier to any of the rest...

    But anyway...

    Can Onyx even defrag? Unless that's what it's referring to by "optimize system"....
     
    taelrak, Aug 23, 2007
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  4. fan of laptop

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    I do not think that we need defrag the hard drive. It is base on unix and the more you use the hard drive, the more it will be high-intergrate.
     
    fan of laptop, Aug 23, 2007
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    Mac OS X uses a better File system that doesn't need to be defragmented.
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    I download 8gb+ torrents weekly. It's going to get fragmented ;)
     
    passive101, Aug 23, 2007
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    Once I had to defrag my disk because it had an error and I couldnt create a bootcamp partition because it needed continuos free space, so I downloaded iDefrag. I burned a boot cd with some corelli program it came with, booted into the cd and then degraffed normally.

    Haven't tried any other program, but that one worked great.
     
    00fez, Aug 23, 2007
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    Well according to that article files over 20MB are not automatically fragmented so since he's downloading 8gb+ weekly, a lot of which will include files well over 20MB, defragging might be a good thing. =)
     
    Eluzion, Aug 23, 2007
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