Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.

  Now I know better.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

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  • The_Decryptor@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.

    You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the worst things that the newer Windows versions did is get rid of that little view of defragmenting. It was much more interesting than watching a number slowly tick up.

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