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Do you need to defrag external drives?
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bacchus
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Mar 18, 2002, 04:20 PM
 
Have a 60 gig external firewire drive and wondered if it might be a good idea to defrag it using diskwarrior...

Any thoughts on the matter?

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Mar 18, 2002, 07:00 PM
 
There's no reason that an external drive would be any different from an internal when it comes to defraging it. If you do a lot of moving files on and off the drive, then do it. I defrag mine every couple months regardless of how much I've done with them.
     
   
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