Mac: Defragment hard drive - how it works

You don't normally have to defragment your Mac's hard drive. The reason for this is your Mac's file system. In contrast to Windows, small, free gaps on the hard disk are not filled again immediately. Your Mac also performs a kind of defragmentation when it restarts. Manual defragmentation is therefore unnecessary in most cases.

Defragment hard drive on Mac - all information

• You can find numerous paid programs on the Internet to format your Mac's hard drive. However, we do not recommend that you purchase and use one of these programs.
• Because the hard drive of an Apple Mac behaves differently than a Windows hard drive: files are stored in the cache when you use them and the free space is fully available when you shut down.
• In addition, the hard drive is automatically defragmented, so you don't need a tool here.
• In most cases, just restarting your Mac may be enough. This means that additional storage space can be fragmented and made available again.
• In the worst case, the defragmentation tools mentioned above can lead to a deterioration in performance because they interfere too deeply with the system.

To increase the speed of your Mac, you can also create a backup with TimeMachine and then set up the operating system again.