Are you required to defrag your Mac OS X

Defragging your Mac OS X is still being a matter of wrangle or controversy among Mac users. Although we know that defragmentation is a technique to optimize performance of Mac OS X, by resolving reliability and performance issues associated with your Mac hard drive.

So, in order to make a right decision about the same, one must have a close look to all the details linked to this discussion, which aforementioned below:-

• According to some Mac users, it comes with enough built-in techniques that minimize fragmentation. OS X moves your frequently accessed files (read only), in a hot zone, after monitoring the files, this process is called Hot file adapting clustering. OS X can take care of fragmented files if its size is upto 20mb. But some users having a big misinterpretation that they never require any defragging software, even they think that these are simply a money-making strategy.

• The users who migrate from PC to Mac, they know very well the significance of defragmenting drive, because its an important tool in Windows to maintain PC speed. In Mac, the user doesn't need to worry about such things.

Here, you should also know the Apple's view regarding the same. The company states in one of its Knowledge base article published in 2003 that-­-­-­-­-­- “you probably won't need to optimize Mac OS X at all,if you think you might need to defragment your Mac, then provides instructions for what you should do "

Some myths about maintenanace of Mac:

1. Using Disk utility:Reparing permissions regularly:

Repairing permissions—a procedure which simply resets permissions , works only on a particular portion of OS X system files. It doesn’t affect your third-party files or user files, So, it’s unlikely that regularly repairing permissions will prevent yoour Mac from problems.

2.Run Magical Unix Maintenance Scripts:

I think you all would have heared about the Magical scripts of Unix supported by OS X that are scheduled to run in night, by putting your Mac in sleep mode or in shudown state. Yes, its true that these scripts perform some clean up tasks, one script every day ,other in a week,and third one in a month. But if you shut down your Mac every night then scripts don't run.

Mainly its task is to remove temporary files and log files in order to clean up Mac.

But, performing these scripts aren’t so necessary and even if few are missed, it will not affect your Mac.

3 Defragments your files hourly:

Basically users having large files, are required to perform defragmenting Mac on regular basis, But for small sized files, OS X is enough to protect from fragmentation.

4.By frequently cleaning caches:

To improve fruition of Mac some programs and OS X store frequently accessed data in cache files, so to delete these files regularly is not a good idea.

If you ask me then I will suggest you to do it beacause it will benefit you. I am using Stellar Drive Defrag software for defragmenting my Mac drive and find this tool very efficient with many advanced features.