
IPVanish pricing for its VPN service starts with monthly billing at $10.99 (opens in new tab).Ī new quarterly plan (opens in new tab) is only $5 a month for the first term, though it doubles to an expensive-looking $10 on renewal. The annual plan (opens in new tab) looks good value at $3.75 a month, especially as it also includes VIPRE Antivirus Security. But beware, as with the quarterly plan, this is a special introductory deal. IPVanish's VPN + Backup plan is no longer available, and the company doesn't offer SugarSync with any of the latest plans. If you're only looking for the VPN, opting for another provider could cut your costs significantly. Private Internet Access has a 3-year plan that costs just $2.03 for the first 39 months (there's 3 months free), an upfront payment of $79.

IPVanish asks $44.99 for year one, $89.99 for years two and three a total of $225. IPVanish looks like a better deal if you'll use the bundled VIPRE Advanced Security. It's a capable security suite which includes antivirus, ransomware protection and a firewall for up to 10 devices.
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Beware, though: it only protects Windows and Mac devices.
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One reason why a hard drive might slow down if files are particularly fragmented is because it has moving parts (unlike an SSD) and it has to move the head around to read the different bits of the file you want to open.You'll get better protection, and iOS plus Android support, from providers such as Norton or Bitdefender.

APFS was initially only available on SSDs (which as we’ve already said, shouldn’t be defragged anyway), but it arrived on hard drives and Fusion drives in 2018 with Mojave.

A year later, in 2003, Hot File Adaptive Clustering arrived, which identifies files that are frequently accessed but rarely updated and moves them to a special area of the drive, defragging them during the process.Īpple then introduced APFS (Apple File System) in High Sierra in 2017.
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Then in Mac OS X 10.2, which arrived in 2002, the system got even cleverer at avoiding fragmentation. HFS+, which was introduced in 1998, could defrag files on the fly thanks to Hot File Clustering. Mac do not need to be defragmented because the file system (initially HFS+ and more recently APFS) prevents fragmentation and automatically defrags files if necessary – if the file has more than eight fragments, or is smaller than 20MB, it will be automatically defragged. If you are running High Sierra or Mojave, and your file system has been changed to Apple’s newer APFS, you will not be able to use any third party tools to defrag your Mac as there are none that work.
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