Defrag Options

[photoslob]

Can anyone tell me if defraging my external drives which i use only for playing films on with my wd media player will make any difference. I keep my PC defraged all the time and in top working order as im a avid gamer and i know defraging helps things run faster and smother. The only files on my externals are movie's MKVs.

[WDUser]

If your external HDD is heavily fragmented (check with any good defrag tool such as Defraggler or MyDefrag), then yes, defragging it should make a difference and lower file access times. That's the purpose of defragging after all. Don't think playback will be affected all that much though, since the player anyway reads ahead and buffers during playback.

[photoslob]

Yes i thought it might help well im gonna try my 2TB its finished now all files put in folders ready to play. It takes about 2mins to read drive now,dont know if this is good or bad but gonna defrag now it bet it takes ages LOL.
Thanks for post.

PS I use O&O Defrag have done for years its pretty quick and does a great job.

[WDUser]

Yeah, sometimes the re-indexing that the Media Library feature does takes quite a long time. If you don't care for the various aggregated views it provides, you can turn the feature off under Settings. Then you should be able to access the drive pretty much immediately after connecting it, but you'll need to navigate through its folder structure to get to your files.