It looks like the best thing to do is periodically copy everything off the disk, reformat it, and then copy everything back on. That will get rid of fragmentation and go 1,000 times faster than defragging.
NO, simply follow what I said above and use defraggler to just defrag the fragmented files.
Hi nukecad, I tried to defrag just the top 10 files in the procedure above, and it is going much faster than the full defrag. The program is reading and writing at 420 MB/s, where in the full defrag, the program was reading and writing at 6 KB/s. This looks like it is the better way to go.
Good,
Whatever you use to try and defrag the whole of a 29TB disk is going to take hours to do it.
Stick to just defragmenting the files that need it.
(After all, it's not as if you are short of disk space).
On 14/02/2020 at 16:14, Hydrad said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents ipsClearfix" data-gramm="false"> <p> It looks like the best thing to do is periodically copy everything off the disk, reformat it, and then copy everything back on. That will get rid of fragmentation and go 1,000 times faster than defragging. </p> </div>
That doesn't always work and can open a can of worms. Case in point I did exactly that on a hard disk and the performance of it afterwards was horrible and nearly unusable. The only solution I had was to use the old discontinued free JkDefrag I had archived locally and play around with the command line to have it sort with "-a 7" which restored the performance on the disk.