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Defragging: How Often?

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Fri, 02/05/2010 - 16:52 — ksjeff

I have my iTunes media, currently about 400 gigs of music data, stored on a pair of 2tb external drives, one the primary, the second a backup (JBOD, not RAID). At what point is it recommended to run the defragment utility on these disks? Thanks for your suggestions.

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Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:33 — davidR
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Hey Jeff. I like doing this

Hey Jeff. I like doing this once a week.

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Mon, 02/08/2010 - 19:03 — The Computer Au...
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I would start by asking

I would start by asking Windows to analyze the drives in the Disk Manager. If Windows reports the drive fragmented then it's good to defragment. I used to run an automated defragmenting script nightly on an old machine of mine :~)

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