Overcome Slowdown issues with Defragmentation

Where, when, and how to defrag Mac drive are the questions that Mac users most frequently ask when they suffer from Mac machine slowdown issues. Mac users are very well aware of their misfortune that in spite of getting a graphically pleasing user-interface and so many excellent features, they do not have any built-in utility that can prevent a Mac machine from turning to snail. Those who are familiar with the causes of Mac slowdown (such as deposition of slew of temporary files, browser plug-ins, etc.) prefer using speedup software for their Mac machines. However, those who are not familiar keep suffering until the Mac hard drive is crashed due to large number of bad sectors, fragments, and many other similar performance issues.

Disk Utility facilitates resolving performance-related issues encountered with different Mac volumes efficiently; however, a few are still unresolved. Hard drive fragmentation is one of the prime causes of a hard drive’s poor performance, which cannot be resolved as Disk Utility lacks defragmentation capability.

Fragmentation is the term used for denoting a state of hard drive’s memory when data stored on it is scattered (carrying unoccupied memory locations in between contiguous array of data) due to inconsistent memory distribution, or slew of read/write, delete, and move operations. When a file is accessed from scattered memory, it takes longer time to respond. Those who moved from Windows to Mac would likely be missing Disk Defragmentation as a step towards speeding up the hard drive memory. However, those who have been sticking to the Mac machines are not much aware of what defragmentation is, and evidently, how to defrag Mac.

Defragmentation is a route to improve the performance of the Mac machine. This route needs different milestones to achieve successfully in order to attain the speed the Mac machine is known for. Since Mac’s Disk Utility is not capable of resolving the fragmentation issue, you need to download and run a commercial tool to defrag Mac’s hard drive. A good Mac defragmentation software analyzes the entire hard drive first, and then proceeds to defragmentation.

After the analysis is finished, defragmentation reorganizes physical blocks of the memory in a random logical order. In addition, all emptied (or vacated) memory blocks are filtered out of the non-contiguous arrays of data, thereby merging them together in order to reuse them afterwards. Once the fragments are filtered out, the system will respond quickly n .mkland you will see a huge performance gain.