No more Norton Utilities support in OS 10.4.4?? what now?

Since Symantec isn't supporting Norton Utilities for 10.4.4 any more and I need to defragment my hard drive, are there any suggestions? TechTool Pro? Any experience with that program out there? Any other suggestions? Is there any freeware or shareware available?
Thanks for your input. It is appreciated. G

Hi Gerhard,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
My guess is because of the problems with Norton over the years with Mac computers. I have never really heard people talk about how great Norton works, it really does more damage then good. You shouldn't have to defragment your hard drive because ever since OS X 10.2, OS X has been equipped with delayed allocation. Delayed allocation makes a number of mall allocations to be combined into a single larger allocation in one stop on the disk. This means that it automatically defragments your "slow-growing" files (called Hot File Adaptive Clustering). I suggest reading the Knowledge Base Document 25668 on disk optimization. Also there is a previous thread that I have found about this subject.
I hope that helps,
Jon
PS I believe you have posted this thread in the wrong forum, you might want to post this in Power Mac G5 forum.

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