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Greetings Linus Tech Tips, This is my first question/post/comment to your forum, I have been watching your channel for years and mostly like what you do as I enjoy your reviews, thoughts, and ideas as they represent a non-biased observational real-world opinion. I have been working in the IT world since the late 70's and have seen many things come and go. Although I may be “long in the tooth” I provide tech support to a fair number of clients I try to stay up to date on what's new and upcoming as learning is what keeps us alive, for once you stop learning what’s the point of living?? Being that I was an early adopter of SSD drives and had several of the very early SATA & M.2 drives and I quickly learned how drive health would wither rapidly from just normal regular use. Now that we are several years into this new storage medium with SSD having better drive health management, we all know that caching and defragging SSD’s is problematic. So, knowing this fact why is it that "Windows 10/11" drive utility still wants to "optimize" SSDs by default, and is there a difference between Optimize and Defrag??? Asking for a friend!! LOL I would love to hear what insight can you give us on the Optimize vs Defragging subject?? PS what are your picks for the top hard drive utilities for SSD?? Thanks in advance, [PII mod removed] -
Recently my Plex server has started acting weird: Some 4k HDR HEVC files with TrueHD streams simply refuse to play 99% of the time and if they do any 'seeking trigger' like resume, fast-forward, rewind or toggling subtitles will result in a stuck loading screen which will eventually result in "Unable to playback media" and a DEBUG - Failed to stream media, client probably disconnected after X bytes: 104 - Connection reset by peer in the logs. The server runs Unraid 6.8..3 and I have now localised it to apparently a specific disk in the array. A small sample test seems to confirm that. Movies on other disks play fine, but the tested ones that reside on the disk in question show the same stuck-loading behaviour. Switching to a lower-bandwidth audio stream in the file immediately fixes it however and switching back to high-res audio breaks it again and triggers a warning about the connection to the server not being fast enough. The latter I doubt, as it is connected over gigabit. Now the one thing that makes this disk stand out is that it is highly fragmented compared to the rest: root@<server>:~# xfs_db -r -c frag <disk> actual 2288, ideal 1336, fragmentation factor 41.61% Note, this number is largely meaningless. Files on this filesystem average 1.71 extents per file all the other disks are between 5 and 10%. I'm not that intimately familiar with file systems other than NTFS, so my question is: can/will such a high fragmentation cause these kind of issues and should I maybe put a defrag in a cron job or something to once in a while defrag stuff? -
Alright guys, so one of them is lying but which one? left is win10 default program, right one is Defraggler
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I'm running 2 x 3TB WD Reds in my NAS non raid so i have the full 6GB of space. I have recently done some spring cleaning and sorted out and deleted 1.09TB of data. What im wondering is it safe to defrag a NAS and if so whats the best tools to use? Thanks
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Is there an aspect of defragmenting, which is bad? The harddrive can be illustrated as below (my actual harddrive). When you defrag, it consolidates the files one by one, so that the actual files can be read in ONE go, instead of searching different locations. (Benefit). But since the files are covering the same sectors (outer rings), due to defragmentation bringing the "inner" files into order, from outward to inward, doesn't that mean, that it's always the same outer sectors that are reused and worn, and that the inner circles (sectors) essentially are rarely used? So in short, your harddrive is getting worn on the outer parts, but stays almost unused on the inside when it dies? Am I misunderstanding this? Because that is a HUGE NO NO for me.
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I have had my pc for over 2 years and I have never ever done a defrag. My questions is should I do defrags on my sshd ? and how often should I do them ?
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Qucik Question i haven't fragmented my Pc in 6 months and i was wondering if it would be better just to Format it / Delete everything but windows ? maybe i should just upgrade pc and if so what should i upgrade ?
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Safe to Defrag Intel Smart Response Technology (ISRT)
Depthcharger posted a topic in Storage Devices
Hi I was wondering is it safe to Defrag my Intel Smart response technology? Will it affect my pc in any bad way? I know defragging an SSD is a big NO no so I'm wondering is it safe to defrag my main C drive HDD with ISRT enabled? Its set to enhanced not Max. Also using Windows 7 Please and thanks! -
should i return it? i defragged it like twice
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Can anyone suggest a fragmentation software which will put all large files (*.rpf) of GTA 5 game in near-by sectors to access it faster. As this game takes much time to load. Pl suggest me software, Don't reply by "Just get an SSD". I have SSD, But, It hasn't enough storage to hold large games, That's why I keep them in my HDDs -
Intelligent Defragmentation Tool for Mechanical Drives
Dark Zenith posted a topic in Storage Devices
Greetings and Happy New Year to All! Back in the day before SSDs were common there were intelligent defragmentation/fragmentation tools that would sequence your drive sectors intelligently so they would read in sequence on Windows Startup. I am working on my Son-in-Laws system and the HDD is extremely slow with Windows 10 taking upwards of 3-5 minutes before it finally finishes thrashing the drive. I've cleaned up the software as much as possible and am now looking at other options. Planning to purchase an SSD and a Primocache License for his Birthday but that isn't until the fall. In the meantime I wouldn't mind investing in an intelligent defragmentation tool to tide things over. Does anyone know of any current software that does this? I know they existed back in the day but when web searching these days I am weary of all the scam/fake products out there. A portable installer would be a bonus as I can add it to my technician toolbox but not required. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Alternatively, I may consider a ram upgrade in the meantime for him and then grab primocache early for ram caching. Does primocache store this data on the HDD to be reloaded for a quick startup or is it a blank cache that repopulates once the system has started? In the second case it isn't worth the thought then. Thank-you for any advice in advance and Happy New Years! (Happy Birthday to me as well heh) -
So I was defragging my SSD, then I found on the web that defragging your SSD will reduce its lifespan I was using the Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro. I stopped it at 5%, I'm worried about my drive I checked it's health in crystal disk info and it says 100% Correct, should I be worried about its life span or it will not reduce because I stopped it at 5%?
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Hi, I am searching for a defrag tool. Currently I use Defraggler but I want to have more control over the Defrag. (Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, ReFS Volumes) Problem: After Defrag i have free space defragmentation and after free space defrag (without allow fragmentation) i am still left with ~10GB of fragmented data (2-3 Fragments each File). Is there a Defrag tool what is capible of filling a drive without leaving empty sectors or fragment my data? Thanks for your help :)
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I was wondering if defragging my mac would make it faster. If defragging won't work, what will speed up my mac? I've tried to clear up my storage, delete useless programs, disabled pointless settings (animations, dashboard, etc). Is there anyway?
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I have a M.2 NVM.E Samsung 960 Pro, ive had it for a few years and fragmentation is at 50%, i know the rule of thumb is to not defrag a SSD but what if it is at such a high level.
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Looking for suggestion of best disk defraggers to use. I mean, i know they're all basically the same. What i'm really asking is if there is any advantage to using a third party one vs the default windows. If so, are there any better options other than JKdefrag that don't have paid versions and are basically bloatware(looking at you Piriform)? Thanks.
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Tomorrow i'm adding an SSD to my system. Currently I just have a HDD. Basically what is the easiest way to have win 10 on the SSD and reformat the HDD (do I need to reformat the HDD before installing Win on the ssd, or can I do it there etc.). Also whats the deal with windows defraging SSDs? Ive heard it just causes unnecessary reads and writes to the drive and to disable it. Just a little confused on it all. Thanks for the help! -
Welp, here we go. It's been about 3 years since I have had access to my old laptop's hard drive. One day it simply stopped working. I am not sure exactly what caused this, as at the time I was not as tech-savvy as I am now and did not know what to look for. When I try to access the drive now through a good ol' SATA connection, my new system sees the drive but is incapable of reading it. Stranger still is what my computer does when I plug the drive in. All of a sudden disk management cannot open up, and neither can the hard drive de-fragging tool. This problem is fixed if I shut down the hard drive, prompting me to think something is very, VERY wrong with my drive. I assume none of my data is recoverable, but wanted to post this to see if anyone has any ideas I have not come up with yet. Rest in peace my beautiful MatLab code that turned flashing light into binary and then binary into hexadecimal and then hexadecimal into a string of characters determined by a random seed generator. RIP. *Note: Drive is a 2.5" toshiba 1 TB drive
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so I am very new to this program O&O Defrag it was recommended to me on here and I don't know how to set something up I believe you should be able to do I've never done something like this before I would like to get the defrag to take a bunch of my large video files and put them at the end of the drive so I can leave the faster Parts open for quicker file transfers are the smaller files that need to be accessed randomly also to be honest I need a walkthrough for dummies so to speak ty for any help
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I am looking for the most efficient HDD defragmentation software. By that, I mean it gets the best read/write and possibly auto-defrags files so things don't get messy. I'm running off of just a single HDD, so it kind of matters that stuff goes in and out as fast as possible, especially with games. I was considering something like Auslogics Defrag or something. Defraggler doesn't like to defrag some files and Windows Defrag seems to do okay, but it lacks a lot of information. You can include paid programs... Note: New Windows 10 Install
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Hi all, catchy title, isn't it? Ok, I need to get to my questions quickly before I get reported or something... So I bought this SSD, a used Samsung PM830, but still at 95% health. As far as I know, Samsung SSDs are well known for good quality. I have had no problems with 7-8 months of use so far, and it's still at 95% health. (except for a minor issue of incompatibility with Samsung Magician software, because it's an OEM part, but not a huge setback) My use has been mostly moderate, but I have not taken any extensive steps to limit wear. I still have hibernation, caching etc. enabled and I regularly download files to my SSD before transferring them to my external HDD (I have a laptop, with the only drive being the SSD in question). So I think I have made it pretty clear that I don't really bother myself too much with preserving my SSD, and it's still at 95% after so many months of use. I know that for any drive, the sequential read/write speed is significantly faster than random speeds. More so for mechanical HDD. As far as I know, defragmentation collects the bits of files that may be scattered around on a disk and stores them together so accessing it is more like a sequential read than a random read. It matters a lot for mechanical HDD since they have very poor random reads, but it's more or less ok for SSD. My disks are about 10-15% fragmented. So if I can get even a little performance gain be defragmentation, I might be interested to do it, haven't done it yet though. My theory is that if it works by making use of sequential reads for mechanical HDDs, then why not for SSDs? I know that it will subject the SSD to a lot of writes, but I don't plan to do it often. I plan to use my system for maximum 2-2.5 more years, and the resale value will be too low to worry about it (see specs in the attached image), I might as well just send it for recycling. P.S. - I have verified the remaining life with CrystalDiskInfo
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Hi, so I ordered some new parts for my pc a few days ago. I bought 2x 1tb wd black hdd's and plan on putting them in RAID 0, this will be my first time creating a raid array so sorry If I come off as an noob Anyhow Ill be moving all my system into an H440 in the next few days and was just wondering, can I defrag a raid 0 array? I know that defragging SSD's is bad but since defrag rearranges data so its closer to itself on the platter would that be bad for raid 0 since it alternates every other bit between the 2 disks? Thanks Oxygen
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Is good to defrag a SSHD?
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I have a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB in my system right now, and it has quite a lot of fragmented files. Is it worth me defragging, despite the fact that it lowers the lifespan of the drive?
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Hello, Greetings, I want to ask if I should defragment a RAID 0.There shouldn't be any problem right?Just making sure. Thanks.
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