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       Defrag
    photoslob
    post May 31 2011, 09:16 AM
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    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.
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    post May 31 2011, 12:49 PM
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    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.
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    - photoslob   Defrag   May 31 2011, 09:16 AM
    - - photoslob   Yes i thought it might help well im gonna try my 2...   May 31 2011, 02:28 PM
    - - WDUser   Yeah, sometimes the re-indexing that the Media Lib...   May 31 2011, 10:53 PM

     

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