Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping

On 2025-01-17, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:

On 1/17/25 1:33 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-01-17 21:13:51 +0000, Dudley Brooks said:

On 1/16/25 4:49 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2025-01-16, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
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Should I defrag afterwards?  Or does the OS (10.13.6 High Sierra)
make it somehow unnecessarry

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That's not something you need to do with flash storage (SSDs).

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Ah!  Excellent!  Thanks!

 
The original post says "HD", as in hard drive, not SSD flash storage.
As usual Jolly Roger didn't bother actually reading the question.
 
Having noted that, defragging isn't really neccessary on MacOS hard
drives either.

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My apologies -- it actually is an SSD.  I just have been using
computers for so long that I still say "HD" generically -- anything
that's not a floppy or a tape!

Yes, I understood this. Apparently Your Name is the one who didn't
bother reading your original post, because if he had he would have read
past "HD" to see the model Mac you are referencing, which doesn't even
have an option for hard drives as it's an SSD-only model - something I
figured out within a few seconds of reading your original post. 😉

At any rate, defragging isn't something you need to do with modern Macs
(even those with hard drives).

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