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Defrag this drive?
Hi all,
I've got an external hard drive that I back-up everything onto. There is only the back-up file on this drive. Should I be trying to defrag this drive? Thanks in advance. |
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Defrag this drive?
Gordie wrote:
Hi all, I've got an external hard drive that I back-up everything onto. There is only the back-up file on this drive. Should I be trying to defrag this drive? Thanks in advance. If you don't ever erase anything from this drive you're fine not defragging it. Otherwise, the drive may benefit from an occasional defrag, but I doubt that you'd need to do so very often. I've had a backup external drive for over a year that I may have defragged once. Bill |
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Defrag this drive?
Hopefully, you will never need to read the backup files. Hence, whatever
benefit defragmentation gives you will not be present on this drive. So, don't bother. Jim "Gordie" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've got an external hard drive that I back-up everything onto. There is only the back-up file on this drive. Should I be trying to defrag this drive? Thanks in advance. |
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Defrag this drive?
Thanks to you both.
"Jim" wrote in message ... Hopefully, you will never need to read the backup files. Hence, whatever benefit defragmentation gives you will not be present on this drive. So, don't bother. Jim "Gordie" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've got an external hard drive that I back-up everything onto. There is only the back-up file on this drive. Should I be trying to defrag this drive? Thanks in advance. |
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