Question how do i stop the auto defrag on a Mac's SSD

[pjg]

my dad had a mac ssd and it felled in like a year of using it. i think it got defrag over and over but i am maybe wrong. i had mine for like 3 or 4 years now and it still works. my dad does not wont one now but i just want to know what maybe happened

 

[McHenryB]

There is no auto defrag feature in OS X. To defragment a drive (which should hardly ever be necessary - never for an SSD) you would have to use a third-party utility. So unless your Dad installed a utility that auto-fragmented the SSD that was not the culprit.

There's not really enough information to make a guess as to why the SSD failed; you don't even say which model of Mac it was. There have been cases of faulty SSDs in certain Mac models which Apple replaced free of charge. It is possible that your Dad's was one of those models. In any case, if it failed with only a year's usage he should have taken it back to Apple; they would almost certainly have replaced the disk free of charge.

 

[pjg]

There is no auto defrag feature in OS X. To defragment a drive (which should hardly ever be necessary - never for an SSD) you would have to use a third-party utility. So unless your Dad installed a utility that auto-fragmented the SSD that was not the culprit.

There's not really enough information to make a guess as to why the SSD failed; you don't even say which model of Mac it was. There have been cases of faulty SSDs in certain Mac models which Apple replaced free of charge. It is possible that your Dad's was one of those models. In any case, if it failed with only a year's usage he should have taken it back to Apple; they would almost certainly have replaced the disk free of charge.

60gb he got it in 2009 i beleve

 

[pjg]

There is no auto defrag feature in OS X. To defragment a drive (which should hardly ever be necessary - never for an SSD) you would have to use a third-party utility. So unless your Dad installed a utility that auto-fragmented the SSD that was not the culprit.

There's not really enough information to make a guess as to why the SSD failed; you don't even say which model of Mac it was. There have been cases of faulty SSDs in certain Mac models which Apple replaced free of charge. It is possible that your Dad's was one of those models. In any case, if it failed with only a year's usage he should have taken it back to Apple; they would almost certainly have replaced the disk free of charge.

Looping back to the previous point, Macs don't generally need to be defragged. This is simply because the Mac OS X file system was designed differently to Microsoft's, and it automatically defragments files on its own. The process is otherwise known as Hot File Adaptive Clustering (HFC).

how do i stop that

 

[pjg]

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/how-defrag-speed-up-mac-3600241/

 

[rgd1101]

from 2009? that probably 1s gen ssd. they make them a lot better now.