The easy, fast and cheap way to Defrag and Optimize your Mac

I don't remember if Apple had ever provided any defragmentating tool with its OS. Specially after the introduction of HFS+ file system in Mac OS X. Defragmentation of a hard disk drive reduces file fragmentation by reorganizing the fragmented disk files into contiguous memory locations. Ostensibly, a defraged drive performs read/write operation at faster rate than a disk where all the files are scattered about.

Whenever I talk to any Mac expert about the need of defragmentation, the answer I always get is – NO. Actually , the HFS+ file system of this wonderful OS is too smart to handle fragmentaion upto some remarkable level. 
 
The condition becomes little wired with users working with large files. My friend, a graphic designer, is one such user who deals in photos, videos etc. He often faces sluggish Mac behavior which delays his job. There, the built-in ability of Mac fails to manage the fragmentation and needs some external tool to take care of scattered pieces of files.
I suggested him to first download the trail version of Stellar Drive Defrag and analyse the drive . It shown the status of fragmentation as given in fig 1. Next, he bought the application and got his entire drive defragged within no time. It optimized Mac drive and rejuvenated it with prominent increase in performance. 
 
Usually a defragmenting tool consumes little longer to perform the task but the point matters a lot is reliability an security of data it works upon. Stellar Drive Defrag need to create a bootable DVD before defragmenting the boot drive.
By default the OS X adopts the the technology called the “Hot File Adaptive Clustering”. Your Mac moves the files used most frequently, an area on the hard disk that gives you faster access times. Stellar Drive Defrag knows this area and doesn't make any changes in the Hot Zone and leaves them alone.

Caution: The users should note that the defragmentating involves the permanent movement of files in drive so there should not be any shut down during the process else, it may lead to permenent loss of your Mac data.