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You are right, defragmenting solid state will shorten the lifespan, which is why it only should be done when your drive is very slow, and the defragmenter analysis says its fragments count is very high. But if you keep on moving your stuff around and keep on piling more in the gaps, it's bound to happen at some point, and I don't want to know how long I will have to wait until I can use that drive again. At least, an 8TB drive can be left to defrag while I go sleeping and it will be over by the time I'm done with my second espresso and remember my computer even exists.
I thought that was the case.
With the so much larger conventional drives that are around though, I feel that when it comes time for a defrag, it is probably time for me to consider replacing/upgrading it anyway.
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I'll invest in a server if push comes to shove and I need so much more space instead of buying such huge hard drives. Smaller memory chips with duplicates for protection, and you can add an almost infinite amounts of them, with the limits being my budget for the hardware and of course the energy to power them. It can be a pricey investment. But at the price these 50+ TB are selling, and considering the average lifespan of 10 years on an external HD, I think the server is more cost-effective.
A good indexing system (or at least a damned good directory tree structure) helps sort things out when you start stacking stuff too high in your HDDs.
I forced myself to create a solid directory structure a decade ago with all of my Poser and DS stuff, and I'm very, very glad I took the time to organize it all back then. I recently refined the Poses subdirs while I was at it. It took a few hours to move it all around, but it should be good for the next 10 years of more stuff.
Right now, I have a 2TB disk for system files and OS, a 4TB disk for the most active stuff, and another 4TB warm store disk for seldom-used things (like my old Poser Runtime directories and backup things, old tax returns, etc). Everything else goes to a backup server with 10TB of disk for D/R, and an intermediate 6TB backup USB disk.
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