Should I defragment my external backup HDD drive

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I recently noticed that my new (3 months old) external HDD that I use for my daily incremental backups (6 increments in each chain with retention of 4 chains) is repeatedly becoming significantly fragmented (22% this time), even though I had scheduled weekly optimisation for it.  I also noticed that something unknown to me had turned off the scheduled optimisation.  Last time I noticed this (possibly 2 to 3 weeks ago), I manually defragmented the disk, and turned the scheduled optimisation back on.  This is somewhat of a mystery, as before I replaced the HDD with a newer model from the same manufacturer (WD), I did not experience this.  I should also mention that my backup disk is only about 40% used.

My questions are:

1. Should I be concerned about this?

2. Should I manually defragment the HDD if the scheduled optimisation continues to be turned off by some unknown agent?

 

Thu, 01/13/2022 - 23:09
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Hallo Rodolfo Valerio,

Normale Festplatten sollten regelmäßig defragmiert werden. Eine fragmentierte Master File Table kann Daten auf einer Festplatte unbrauchbar machen.

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Normal hard drives should be defragmented regularly. A fragmented Master File Table can render data on a hard drive unusable.

Fri, 01/14/2022 - 09:51