It would, but the fragmentation is actually surprisingly low considering how most of it is fragmented, so it will work just barely...
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DinohScene
Defraggers need space to swap the files about.
Having less the 10% free space means that the program takes a unnecessary long time before it finishes, even then, most of the times it did a half arsed job.
Not to mention that the few GB you got of free space is now scattered across the disk.
All those R/W cycles put a unneeded strain on the seeker arm.
Having less the 10% free space means that the program takes a unnecessary long time before it finishes, even then, most of the times it did a half arsed job.
Not to mention that the few GB you got of free space is now scattered across the disk.
All those R/W cycles put a unneeded strain on the seeker arm.
DinohScene
It could even be that it simply refuses to defrag your drive, due to the amount of available space.
But hey, don't come cry to me if you suffer from data loss or SMART spits out an error.
It's a possibility.
But hey, don't come cry to me if you suffer from data loss or SMART spits out an error.
It's a possibility.
ThoD
I know how defragging works you know
I also know that it's not the drive size that matters, it's the free space compared to the biggest files. A percentage means nothing, 10% on a 2TB and on a 500GB drive are VERY different. I don't have ANY files bigger then 4GBs anywhere on my drive, so I know it won't have a problem.
I also know that it's not the drive size that matters, it's the free space compared to the biggest files. A percentage means nothing, 10% on a 2TB and on a 500GB drive are VERY different. I don't have ANY files bigger then 4GBs anywhere on my drive, so I know it won't have a problem.
ThoD
Have some faith, I've defragged drives at even 3% free space before, I know how to do it and I'm not using the windows defrag, using custom algorith that's optimized to do smaller files first, then the big ones Takes longer, but works wonders!
Takes longer, but works wonders!
DinohScene
Merely educating you with that I know.
I've dealt with clogged harddrives for well over a decade.
I've seen drives spit out odd errors, drives that refused to be defragged by every defrag tool I knew, even seen Windows refuse to boot after a heavily fragged drive was defragged (tho I think that's unrelated to the defragging)
I've dealt with clogged harddrives for well over a decade.
I've seen drives spit out odd errors, drives that refused to be defragged by every defrag tool I knew, even seen Windows refuse to boot after a heavily fragged drive was defragged (tho I think that's unrelated to the defragging)
DinohScene
Healthy drives means a healthy system.
Slave drives can be stuffed to the brim with files tho I don't really recommend doing that either.
I won't say a word about the drives in me server tho haha.
Slave drives can be stuffed to the brim with files tho I don't really recommend doing that either.
I won't say a word about the drives in me server tho haha.
ThoD
I know, but you can't apply the same mindset when doing things to a relatively new hybrid HDD as you would on an ancient 50GB IDE you know In general, what you said is true, but it's not always like that and I know my hard drive well and I'm sure it can take it, I defraged it at 0.9% once without any issues, but did whack and had to re-defrag another time to get the fragmentation to under 1%
In general, what you said is true, but it's not always like that and I know my hard drive well and I'm sure it can take it, I defraged it at 0.9% once without any issues, but did whack and had to re-defrag another time to get the fragmentation to under 1%
DinohScene
Data is valuable.
I tend to not have me drives fragmented at all.
Right now it's a bit impossible but soonish, I can spread it over 20 TB.
I tend to not have me drives fragmented at all.
Right now it's a bit impossible but soonish, I can spread it over 20 TB.
ThoD
Thing is,I got many backup HDDs I just swap in & out if I want the files from them (reason I want a server) & they total well over 55TBs (a LOT of games & even more anime),so I can't really do anything to make space now as they are all full,meaning I have to go ahead with the defrag without freeing up space first,but it will work & get me to at least 4% fragmentation on the first try & I can just do a follow up
),so I can't really do anything to make space now as they are all full,meaning I have to go ahead with the defrag without freeing up space first,but it will work & get me to at least 4% fragmentation on the first try & I can just do a follow up
DinohScene
Get a cheapish motherboard with lots of SATA ports.
Get a 8 port SATA card (4 port SAS also works) and plug it in.
Get a case which can support 10 or more drives.
Plug everything in and bob's your uncle.
Get a 8 port SATA card (4 port SAS also works) and plug it in.
Get a case which can support 10 or more drives.
Plug everything in and bob's your uncle.
DinohScene
Me own server has 3 2TB drives + 3 128 GB USB + 2 16 GB USB + 1 500 GB drive atm.
Got the boot SSD in a PCI slot and will have a whole drive backup drive in the future mounted in a 5.25" bay.
I lack the funds right now to afford bigger drives and a new mobo/CPU/RAM combo ;/
Life priorities n what not.
Also, fuck this 420 char limit.
Got the boot SSD in a PCI slot and will have a whole drive backup drive in the future mounted in a 5.25" bay.
I lack the funds right now to afford bigger drives and a new mobo/CPU/RAM combo ;/
Life priorities n what not.
Also, fuck this 420 char limit.
ThoD
If I build a server, I will go with a good build with at least 12 drives (got 13 internal & 17 external drives that are 2-3TBs each & only one SSD 64GB just for boot on my backup system). Not going for performance, gonna try to squeeze out as much transfer speed as I can though
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or I might just use my Uni's servers since I got privileges in there & they have a crazy 900MB/s down AND up speed (literally uploads 900MBs per second).And yeah, fuck the 420 characters, it's a pain!
The Real Jdbye
Thanks to automatic defrag I never have to defrag my PC manually. In fact whenever I check, it says it doesn't need to be defragmented. I can't say I miss the days of suffering a huge performance hit because I forgot to defrag my PC.
ThoD
Let's be honest here, whoever says they have automatic defrag just has something that keeps taking up resources and slowing down everything rather than having to do it once every few months! The performance hit is bigger since it happens more often, you give resources to the defrag, which means that while it's doing it, you get slowed down. Manual is always better
The Real Jdbye
I haven't noticed a performance hit. I believe automatic defrag only runs when you're not using the PC. That means it won't be able to defrag a lot at once if you use the PC all the time, but because it defrags often, there's less to defrag each time so it doesn't take hours.
ThoD
Automatic defrag runs at the set time regardless of what you are doing and if you happen to need to do something urgent that's stressful on the system, it will get stuck, reason I never have stuff to be done automatically or at least without verification first! Also, automatic defrag can actually make things worse since it can't move some of the files, so you may end up with more fragmentation
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my stepdads laptop auto defrags
it does it every 6 hours
it makes it a pain to do stuff cuz its a old laptop
it does it every 6 hours
it makes it a pain to do stuff cuz its a old laptop
SkittleDash
And I thought I didn't defrag my HDD regularly... I don't even clear temp files regularly. x.x
