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iDefrag
Defragmentation & disk optimization.
Version: 1.7.1
Alas, Norton Speed Disk is dead, however..... iDefrag lives on.
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: iGreg Saturday, February 02 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
Just used it on 12" Powerbook G4, using the Full defragment settings. Not a single problem. If you frequently use very large media files, then I think defragmenting may be a necessity. For the rest of us, defragmenting/optimizing maybe 3 or four times a year is helpful. Diskwarrior is far more important for everyone, but iDefrag is a good supplemental maintenance tool. Interestingly, I think that DiskWarrior in OS9 days actually included an addtional application to defragment files (I forget what it is called).
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Alas, Norton Speed Disk is dead, however..... iDefrag lives on. - dtrent486
The defrag tool formerly included with Diskwarrior was called PlusOptimizer. It was very slow, but it sometimes worked on disks where Norton's Speed Disk couldn't.Friday, March 14 2008 @ 04:36 AM PDT
This is what Peter Norton SpeedDisk would be - Ilgaz
It always feels like, if Peter Norton didn't sell his business and code (to be raped by Symantec) and kept coding Mac/Windows utilities, it would be "Norton SpeedDisk for Leopard".Unfortunately he gave up and sold everything to Symantec who are famous for acquiring some great utilities and making them worthless.
I used defragmenters both on Windows and Mac. Let me tell one thing, if there are some real pointless discussions about "How defragment is needless" while cheapest SSD sells for $600, the reason is Symantec SpeedDisk and the disasters it created.
For similar tool puts safety first and performs great, I suggest Vopt from Golden Bow systems.
Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 03:47 AM PDT
Alas, Norton Speed Disk is dead, however..... iDefrag lives on. - kgould1
Alas - Alsoft had an excellent little application called DeskExpress, which despite promises has never been released as a Mac OS X App. Still Alsoft really do know about HFS and HFS+ and DiskWarrior is a great app for sorting corrupted directories. As far as I know DiskExpress was never part of the DiskWarrior product. DiskExpress was an OS 9 extension and was always looking to use dead time on a machine to keep the drive defragged. It also warned of developing disk reliability issues; I twice avoided disk crashes by heeding it's warning and swapping out drives before they died.iDefrag is a thorough defragger and well worth the money (a point for those griping about the "demo" restriction).
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