I've often heard that Macs don't need to be defragged, but I have a 8tb external usb drive that is getting slow; when I open a folder sometimes I need to wait a few seconds to see the contents (when the drive is mounted and awake). I still have 5tb available on this drive.
At this link I saw this: "Most users, as long as they leave plenty of free space available , and don't work regularly in situations where very large files are written and rewritten, are unlikely to notice the effects of fragmentation on either their files or on the drives free space much."
I have many very large files on this drive, like over 1gb each.
I've run DiskUtility on the drive, and it passes first aid, and I ran DiskWarrior on it as well (the index is efficient according to DW).
Any suggestions on how to optimize this drive?
At this link I saw this: "Most users, as long as they leave plenty of free space available , and don't work regularly in situations where very large files are written and rewritten, are unlikely to notice the effects of fragmentation on either their files or on the drives free space much."
I have many very large files on this drive, like over 1gb each.
I've run DiskUtility on the drive, and it passes first aid, and I ran DiskWarrior on it as well (the index is efficient according to DW).
Any suggestions on how to optimize this drive?