[opencandyismalwares]

stop putting your eggs into FAT or NTFS

Join the EXT revolution, or the cutting edge: ZFS

[crazy4laptops]

opencandyismalwares, on 26 December 2012 - 08:16 AM, said:

stop putting your eggs into FAT or NTFS

Join the EXT revolution, or the cutting edge: ZFS

What about those of us with HFS+ ?

[BearPup]

My vote goes to Auslogics Disk Defrag. Its very fast and gives you a couple of different options. You can do an analysis first (not required) which gives you a good idea of where you stand before you start. A straight defrag after the analysis. A quick defrag where you skip the analysis. And the longest one, a defrag combined with an optimization routine. You can also schedule the defrag to to do it automatically when the computer is idle for a given amount of time that you set. And the last major option is to change the defrag's "priority", how much of your computers resources are dedicated to the defrag (low, normal, and high). More than anything else I like is that even at a normal priority, the program is blazingly fast.

It works on hard drives, external disks, and USB drives as well. A very complete program. They do have a paid version but except for a more detailed analysis, I'm not sure what other advantage it has in practical terms over the free version. I'd definitely give it a try.

[BearPup]

There's a review of free defraggers at dotTech.org, today (3/6/13). At this link: http://dottech.org/9...General+Feed%29 .

They do good, unbiased reporting. Also see the comments which follow the article for additional mentions. Hope this is helpful.