Great product, very happy - skbecker

Very helpful, and your recommendations for use are most welcome. Thank you!

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Thursday, January 04 2007 @ 06:37 PM PST

Re: OS X needs a surface scanner - sjk

I've successfully used the Media Scanner utility (v1.1.2) included with the OEM version of Intech SpeedTools Utilities that came with FW drives I bought from OtherWorldComputing. There's an upgraded Media Scanner (v2.1) available with the retail version of STU, plus upgrades for most other utils beyond their OEM versions (mine anyway). Unfortunately you can't buy it unbundled so $90 may be an expensive investment if that's the only util you're interested in. Looking further ahead, there's speculation of several disk utilities being obsoleted by ZFS if/when it can become a replacement for HFS+ on OS X.

Thanks for sharing your iDefrag tips and usage strategy. I've only used iDefrag Lite that came with iPartition and occasionally run STU's Disk Defrag util, which seems similar to iDefrag's "Quick" mode.

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Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 02:32 PM PST

Great product, very happy - petrologist

Very nice review. I never discovered what those words meant. I had assumed 'Online' defragmented those parts of your home folder with closed files, and 'Optimize' defragmented the system folders as well, but I really don't know. Can't say I find 'optimize' useless; if fact, I usually prefer it. I even optimize my temporary & log files: that way temporary files will likely fit in the same place when rebooted, and fragmented log files are not a great problem for me. I like little holes, if the previous file is going to be extended.

The only real problem is Spotlight's database; but since it become hopelessly fragmented in any case, there's little I can do about that.

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Monday, July 16 2007 @ 12:19 AM PDT