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Sometimes the external hard drive lags some videos, the videos lag on the same parts like 70% of the time, other times they work fine, Seagate told me if I check for errors that it might delete files if errors are found on them, then they told me to do defragmentation on the disk, is there any chance by doing this that it will delete pictures or videos or change anything on them or change their location? What will be changed on folders and files? And does it sound like it could fix the problem? He told me to update drivers and I did and to change option of better performance on the disk and it's still the same problem and I don't want to delete anything on the external hard drive or end up having a video that no longer works.
Depending on how defragemented the file anf many other factors that may or may not help. There can be all kinds of reasons for this.
Type task manager in windows search and open it, switch to the performance tab and you should have active graph of CPU usage. Play the video and see if the CPU spikes in the graph where it's lagging.
In today's world.. I really don't see defragging being of much noticeable use. Drives are so fast as it is.. In theory, it puts less wear on the drive as the heads won't have to seek all over to read a file, but obviously SSD eliminates that as a problem.
Has anyone LEGIT seen defragging provide noticeable results in the past.. 5 years or so (On a drive made in the past 5 years) or do you still do it based on "well, it makes me feel good and/or I *THINK* it makes things go faster"?
Has anyone LEGIT seen defragging provide noticeable results in the past.. 5 years or so (On a drive made in the past 5 years) or do you still do it based on "well, it makes me feel good and/or I *THINK* it makes things go faster"?
Unless you changed the default this is done by Windows in the background.
Yes, or set it to run automatically during times that you know that you will have your computer on.
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