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noob802020-07-10 04:39:17
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noob80, 2020-07-10 04:39:17

Defrag on SMR?

good afternoon. got me here in the hands of WD10SPSX. Of course, this unit has the “stigma” of SMR (it was necessary to check in advance whether this vile technology was present in this disk, well, the life of a noob does not teach anything)
when loading files, I found that they are simply wildly fragmented, according to defragmentation programs.
i.e. you can defragment, write a lot of files (for example, a lot of 4gb files) and all of them will be 600+ fragments each ... and I have a question - does it make sense / sense to defragment such a disk at all, taking into account the features of SMR?
I couldn't find a clear answer for me.
(FS - NTFS)

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Puma Thailand, 2020-07-10
@opium

if you wrote them in a row and not in discord, then there is no point in defragmenting

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d-stream, 2020-07-10
@d-stream

At the FS level, a disk is clusters and it operates with them. The physics of the level of sectors, tracks, surfaces and under them is already smr - at the fs level it is not available at all. Accordingly, fragmentation and recording/storage technology live in non-overlapping universes. The only "tunnel" between them is the size of the clusters. That is, abstractly, if you make clusters equal to blocks of dependent (smr) recording, you can get some kind of overhead for storing small files, but a bonus in the form of a faster recording. But it is not exactly)

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