Taking care of the HDD
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Hi, I'm now up to 74 000 tracks on my HDD and still add new tracks regulary. The HDD is dedicated to my bluesound with nothing than music. I organize everything in albumfolders and if a band like Stones or The Beatles has many albums they are housing in a separate folder where every album is stored. This system works perfekt for me. I sometimes listen to whatever track I find I like at the moment jumping from a reggae song, to a country song and maybe a Stones song, hope you see what I mean. So I started thinking if the HDD get's cluttered and might need a defrag. I have never performed a defrag and don't know if that remove parts of the bits, and destroys any files. Do anyone here tried to defrag your music HDD's? What happened and is there any use to defrag? And yes, I have eferything stored in two backup HDD.
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This depends on several factors. Is the drive used for general storage on a PC sharing duty with the OS and other data and applications where files are written, erased, then over written, i.e. many read/write/erase cycles which moves data to unoccupied blocks on the disc? If it's a separate drive used only for music storage or a NAS drive then there's little advantage gained from defragging as the drive is used mainly for reads which does not move the blocks storing the files.
If this is an SSD then do not defrag as that can reduce the drive lifespan.
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Thank's Brian,
Then I rest assure that defrag is not needed as my HDD is dedicated to just music and connected to my router.
Since I have ripped everything to wav. files I need a lot of space rigt now 4 TB so for that reason it is not SSD as they are to expensive, but I hope they will get more affordable in the future.
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