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By: Uhh

Uhh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:12:39 +0000

“Think about it: writing on a fresh portion of the hard disk will be vastly quicker than overwriting any portions laden with data.”

By what contorted logic? The write speed will be the same regardless of whether it’s overwriting 1s or 0s.

By: Pondini

Pondini — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:23:45 +0000

Erase Free Space to gain performance is absolutely ridiculous.

The only thing it accomplishes is making it impossible to recover deleted files. Period.

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By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:02:48 +0000

They seem to be saying only IF you are defragmenting (and then it seems as if it doesn’t matter).

One person mentions if it’s contiguous, but I don’t see the difference if it’s contiguous or non-contiguous, it’s either free or not (with or without 0s).

I’m all for defragmenting but the last few times I’ve tried it I’ve seen some kinds of error (windows and mac) which then screws up the defrag so I’ve tended to leave it alone. Dragging all the files to another drive, deleting them on the source (and only having the one errored file goof up) and dragging them back has been a more successful way to defrag for me lately.

But

Gary

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:56:28 +0000

But I would expect a used full drive that I just did some form of quick format to just the table of contents to give me the same results as a zeroed-out drive.

So I’m not sure why a used drive with sectors marked used or marked used and zeroed out would give a different performance.

By: LeGaS

LeGaS — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:55:25 +0000

Instead of AppFresh I would recommend using the App Update widget. It worked better for me.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:16:57 +0000

Let's have the pundits at Apple answer this. I started a thread on Apple's discussion board. We'll see what they say.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:21:15 +0000

Erasing “free space” is unlikely to have any effect on system performance. Changing a ‘1′ to a ‘0′ will not speed up a hard drive’s write performance. Erasing “free space” is done for security reasons, not performance purposes.

I think this part of the tip should be deleted from your otherwise excellent blog post.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:25:25 +0000

Imagine buying yourself a new hard drive and zero-ing it out and using it as your system disk. It would feel brand new, won’t it? Now imagine that you’ve used it to the point until its totally full and you start deleting some stuff away. It will tend to feel sluggish and you’ll most probably be hearing the hard disk working away because it needs to overwrite areas with new data instead of just plainly writing new data on a fresh empty disk. Comparatively and theoretically, erasing your free space should make your disk feel more responsive.

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By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:34:18 +0000

>Think about it: writing on a fresh portion of the hard disk
>will be vastly quicker than overwriting any portions laden with data.
>Erasing the free space on your hard disk will ensure
>that free space is really free space.

Vastly quicker? I’ve never heard of such a thing. I’m not disagreeing but I’ve never head of it (and it sounds like it should be obvious they way you write it).

I can see if the space were contiguous but we’re not talking about defragmenting, we’re just talking about deleting the old data, right?

I did a few google searches and

Gary