Fragmented Data Causes Mac Slowdown

‘Slow start up’, ‘Spinning beach ball’, ‘Slow hard drive response’, and ‘Mac freezing’ are a few commonly experienced issues with Mac machines. Do you know why such issues arise? At the user level, one might not know what is taxing the processing of the machine; however, delving deeper certainly lets the user know the causes of the issue.

Computer slowdown is an uncommon issue and almost every user has experienced the situation. Regardless of the causes of the situation, people try doing the things they do know to speed up their machines; however, only a few get the issue fixed. Those who were using Windows previously are inclined to defrag their hard drives. Now, when they find a similar slowdown issue with the Mac machine, it is obvious for them to think whether the memory is fragmented or do they need to defrag Mac drive also. If yes, then how because Disk Utility does not contain any defragmentation tool. Refer to below mentioned facts associated with the defragmentation issue:

• If your Mac machine has an SSD instead of a hard drive, defragmentation is not needed.
• The HFS file system is intelligent enough to bind small files in a batch; therefore, a user does not have to defrag Mac drive frequently.
• Hard drives offer different data read/write speeds when blank and partially filled, and become excessively slow when too much filled.

With time and excessive use, a Mac machine slows down automatically due to a slew of data transactions (such as add/remove data, read/write data, system files upgrade etc.) producing fragments in the memory.

What You Need to take Care about?

When the boot volume on a Mac machine is overfilled (i.e. up to 80% or more), you meet with such slowdown issues. In addition, an overfilled volume or hard drive is susceptible to corruption. Therefore, make sure you do not let it fill more than 50%, which is an ideal state.

How to Remove Fragments

Data access from the fragmented memory is often slow, and sometimes the Mac machine is frozen; therefore, Mac requires defragmentation. Defragmentation is the process of re-arranging the physical memory blocks that are occupied in a contiguous logically sequenced stream. All recently emptied blocks are grouped together in order to reuse them.

However, you can also find numerous defragmentation tools for Mac on the Internet if you want the Mac to speed up instantly.