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Well thats a pragmatic perspective. The only problem I can see with this, is if your internal hard drive gets too full. You may have been steadily maintaining all three levels of defraging (with the assumed use of virtual software), and then when you're hard drive dies, there isn't sufficient available space to run the defraging in all three levels and shrinking, in either the external drive, or the new internal drive. The solution, I think, would be to use 2GB splits (I do this in Fusion, not sure about Parallels), not let you hard drive get too jammed up, and, possibly, to have a either a larger sized external drive for the clone or else for the newer internal drive. But this thinking, or concern of mine, isn't really taking into account the defraging that takes place naturally upon a restore (not sure that all three levels of defraging are replicated upon the restore, and don't know if an shrinking, or equivalent, occurs during a restore)
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