[rebtaz7]

Hi: In Windows, you have to defrag a hard drive agter doing major video editing. I am a new Mac user and did not find anything on this topic. Is it possible that you don't have to do this on a Mac?

Thank You..

[alphasubzero949]

http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-686.html#lnk3

[Maflynn]

Here's Apples take on it.

This question comes up from time to time here and the consensus is its not needed

[P]

If you don't feel like reading those articles, the short version is this:here:

The OS does basic defragging (=all files under 20 megs) in the background as of Panther. There are programs that can defrag anyway - you can find some of them here

http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?...amp;button.y=0

but as has already been said, don't bother.

[Cadaver]

I agree. The Mac's file system (HFS+) does a good job of keeping file fragmentation to a minimum. In addition, MacOS X 10.3.x auto-defrags any file you touch (equal to or smaller than 20MB). In general, its not really necessary on MacOS X.

Windows, on the other hand, disk thrashes like an SOB when not regularly defraged.

[P]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Windows, on the other hand, disk thrashes like an SOB when not regularly defraged.

Well, if using FAT32 anyway. But if you use FAT32, you deserve disk trashing. NTFS isn't so bad, and in fact better than HFS+ on some points.

[Boondoggle]

In Halo I don't defrag at all. Except when I'm not paying attention or something.