(Dec 17, 2015 04:42 PM)Knowledgeable Wrote: ok sounds good thank you for the inputYour very welcome, i'm happy to help out answer your question.🤝
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Defrag: How much is too much? |
Dec 19, 2015 04:50 PM
(This post was last modified: Dec 19, 2015 04:50 PM by BLURRYFΛCE.)
Never ever defrag an SSD, it won't give you any performance boost whatsoever and will directly affect life expectancy of the SSD. However, if your drive is an HDD, you might as well uninstall Defragger because Windows defrags your HDD once a week anyhow, which should keep you around that magical 5% range.
(Dec 19, 2015 04:50 PM)BLURRYFΛCE Wrote: Never ever defrag an SSD, it won't give you any performance boost whatsoever and will directly affect life expectancy of the SSD. However, if your drive is an HDD, you might as well uninstall Defragger because Windows defrags your HDD once a week anyhow, which should keep you around that magical 5% range. what about a flash drive or external seagate drive? don't try to defrag those either right? (Dec 19, 2015 06:33 PM)Knowledgeable Wrote: what about a flash drive or external seagate drive?Flash drives, no, external HDD's, yes, external SSD's, no. (Dec 19, 2015 07:14 PM)Knowledgeable Wrote: So i have a 3TB external seagate with a few system backups on it... you're saying it's safe to defrag that? Should I?Giving us the brand name of storage drive does not help us know if the drive SSD or HDD as seagate manufacture both them. If the 3TB external seagate Solid State Drive (SSD) then no don't defragment the storage drive. You should use third party defragmenters software they arrange data much better then Windows Defragmenter also some of them can do boot time defragmentation and free space defragmentation. Check out free "Smart Defrag" software. "Smart Defrag" http://www.iobit.com/en/iobitsmartdefrag.php (Dec 19, 2015 09:37 PM)Freebooter Wrote: Giving us the brand name of storage drive does not help us know if the drive SSD or HDD as seagate manufacture both them.The size should give you some idea, considering it's a consumer device. P.S. It's a HDD.
I have O&O defrag now as it's top rated and so far I'm liking it much more than Defraggler but Defraggler worked very well.
O&O also has a boot time defrag and free space cleaner. Also, I'm pretty sure the big external is not an SSD. It's an external requiring a power adapter and everything. (Dec 19, 2015 09:56 PM)Knowledgeable Wrote: I have O&O defrag now as it's top rated and so far I'm liking it much more than Defraggler but Defraggler worked very well.Well why don't you check manufacturer website to find out if external drive is SSD or not probably not i'm sure its HDD but make sure its. Power adapter and other everything whatever they are does not indicate which kind of external storage you are using what make you thing externel SSD runs without power adapter. (Dec 20, 2015 09:23 PM)Knowledgeable Wrote: I'm pretty confident it's an HDD to be honest but yeah I can always check.How have you not understand all storage drives store data and they get fragmented so why do you thing external HDD somehow store data different than internal HDD. You defragment all HDD.
I never took a minute to actually think about the fact that the external seagate drive would actually be an HDD with a spinning drive. It makes sense now that it's acknowledged but it just didn't occur me in that way. I guess I just saw it as an external storage similar to a flash drive but it would make sense it's much more than a flash drive.
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