Comments on: Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/ Digital Life Coach | Santa Barbara Web Development Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Transfer DVD movies to your iPod or iPhone http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/#comment-109 Transfer DVD movies to your iPod or iPhone Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:34:33 +0000 http://foleypod.com/ezine/?p=769#comment-109 [...] Next, you’ll need to tell Handbrake where you’d like to save the new movie file.  Since this file is going to be anywhere between 700MB and 1.4 GB in size (seriously) I strongly recommend that you do not save it to your computer’s internal hard drive, unless you plan on only doing this once or twice.  If you’re foresee yourself ripping your entire movie collection, be sure to save it to a backup drive, or an external work drive.  Saving large (700MB+) files to your system drive is one of the fastest ways to cause disk fragmentation, which can be a huge issue.  [learn about this issue HERE.] [...] [...] Next, you’ll need to tell Handbrake where you’d like to save the new movie file.  Since this file is going to be anywhere between 700MB and 1.4 GB in size (seriously) I strongly recommend that you do not save it to your computer’s internal hard drive, unless you plan on only doing this once or twice.  If you’re foresee yourself ripping your entire movie collection, be sure to save it to a backup drive, or an external work drive.  Saving large (700MB+) files to your system drive is one of the fastest ways to cause disk fragmentation, which can be a huge issue.  [learn about this issue HERE.] [...]

]]> By: 13.1233 feet Images at 300 DPI - Photoshop Gurus Forum http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/#comment-108 13.1233 feet Images at 300 DPI - Photoshop Gurus Forum Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:06:43 +0000 http://foleypod.com/ezine/?p=769#comment-108 [...] of your hard drive may also be causing this long time this may help you understand more about it: Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation : FoleyPod eZine Also if you are using DPI this also takes up a lot of RAM and CPU no matter what OS you are using [...] [...] of your hard drive may also be causing this long time this may help you understand more about it: Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation : FoleyPod eZine Also if you are using DPI this also takes up a lot of RAM and CPU no matter what OS you are using [...]

]]> By: Chris Foley http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/#comment-265 Chris Foley Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:58:00 +0000 http://foleypod.com/ezine/?p=769#comment-265 Thanks a lot Jeff, Feel free to bring your MBP by the shop, and I'll show you how Drive Genius can work for you, and then we can finally go get that sushi lunch we've been threatening to do! You've got me on the OS9 question, I really have no idea. I got into the Mac at 0S8.6, but didn't pop the hood until OSX 10.1. Thanks for reading! Chris Thanks a lot Jeff,
Feel free to bring your MBP by the shop, and I’ll show you how Drive Genius can work for you, and then we can finally go get that sushi lunch we’ve been threatening to do!

You’ve got me on the OS9 question, I really have no idea. I got into the Mac at 0S8.6, but didn’t pop the hood until OSX 10.1.
Thanks for reading!
Chris

]]> By: Jeff Foster http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/#comment-264 Jeff Foster Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:54:00 +0000 http://foleypod.com/ezine/?p=769#comment-264 Great stuff Chris! I back up pretty regularly now and do most of my heavy lifting video and production work off on a FireWire drive and empty caches that accumulate and all, but rarely ever partition my hard drive on my MacBook Pro, but I'm seeing some slow-down issues lately as well and reformatting with all the apps and beta software I'm always working with is not an option for me. I'm going to give Drive Genius a try soon before I start having real issues! So tell me this though, back in the old OS9 days there was a popular disk util that had a defrag built in that not only gave you a map of what your drive looked like, but also color-coded the kind of files they were and you could drill down to the actual file name. Does this tool do anything like that as well? Thanks for the great info! It's like having an online doctor's advice service for my Macs! Jeff Great stuff Chris! I back up pretty regularly now and do most of my heavy lifting video and production work off on a FireWire drive and empty caches that accumulate and all, but rarely ever partition my hard drive on my MacBook Pro, but I’m seeing some slow-down issues lately as well and reformatting with all the apps and beta software I’m always working with is not an option for me. I’m going to give Drive Genius a try soon before I start having real issues!

So tell me this though, back in the old OS9 days there was a popular disk util that had a defrag built in that not only gave you a map of what your drive looked like, but also color-coded the kind of files they were and you could drill down to the actual file name. Does this tool do anything like that as well?

Thanks for the great info! It’s like having an online doctor’s advice service for my Macs!

Jeff

]]> By: Krzysztof Maj http://foleypod.com/fighting-hard-drive-fragmentation/#comment-105 Krzysztof Maj Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:26:01 +0000 http://foleypod.com/ezine/?p=769#comment-105 Hello, very nice article based on some experience - that kind of stuff is always the most valuable. Lots of tips and todo's also based on experience. Nice job Chris! Hello,
very nice article based on some experience – that kind of stuff is always the most valuable. Lots of tips and todo’s also based on experience. Nice job Chris!

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