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Originally Posted by DaiNasty
Interesting.
"Mac OS Extended formatting (HFS Plus) avoids reusing space from deleted files as much as possible, to avoid prematurely filling small areas of recently-freed space."
That makes sense in a way, given how big and cheap storage has become. If they get the coding right to ignore small blanks until a suitable file will fit that could certainly improve layout.
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Unlike Apple, Microsoft don't seem to readily admit to any strategy used in NTFS to minimise fragmentation. In fact they don't seem to readily admit anything about how NTFS works. However, from what I can gather the strategy used is that NTFS reserves around 15% space either side of the file, so the file can grow. Fine idea in theory, and as long as you leave a lot of free space on the drive. Not so good if you need to fill up the drive.
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Having said all that about Mac's performing better when defragmented, the only time I have actually HAD to defragment my Mac HDD is when the drive was nearly full, and after deleting a load of stuff, I still didn't have a large area of free space on the drive to install Windows on, so I needed to defrag the drive.