External Drive

[STARRIDER]

Just a quickie,on an external drive(1TB) should you defrag it or leave it alone?

 

[ukglyn]

Just a quickie,on an external drive(1TB) should you defrag it or leave it alone?

No idea on the best way, but I have always just left mine alone.

 

[neil_g]

if its NTFS id just leave it

 

[STARRIDER]

No idea on the best way, but I have always just left mine alone.

if its NTFS id just leave it

Cheers guys..yes its NTFS so i'll leave it alone..

 

[PetethePrimate]

Personally, I would defrag it if you copy a lot of data to & from it regularly. If you're just copying data to it for backup then there's probably no need

 

[Eltheza]

Hi All!

I tend to follow Leo's advice on maintaining external drives:

http://ask-leo.com/should_i_maintain_my_external_drive_the_same_way_i_do_my_internal.html

 

[latercomer2]

Like all drives if its heavily used it will benefit from defragging if its becoming slow. If you dont know what defragging is - its basically a reorganised of all the data so that all the bits of the file are located together to make reading it quicker.