3rd party defragging software- maintaining 12TB of HDDs

gamerxavier · Nov 3, 2014

Okay, so I'm curious if there's anything worth looking into? I've honestly not used any defragging software in a very long time. Never thought it was needed. But, I've got a 16TB system that I'd like to maintain and maintain properly. I'm going to be booting it up and setting everything up over the next few days. I did test the Hard drives with HD tune first. So, any advice is appreciated.

details:
Sure 16TB may not seem like much these days. But, 4 of these HGST 4TB NAS drives cost me almost a grand.

8TB of this storage is used for various purposes including plex server, file server, cloud, etc.
The other 8TB is used as constant backup. Not raid. But, it runs once a week to backup the initial 8TB.
I'll be adding raid into this later if I feel it's even necessary. But, I think using 8TB is better as a backup where these drives are only active once a week (thus better lifetime) than always backing up data.

I do not store anything extremely important on these drives and if I do I can initiate my backups at any given time and I can run backups for smaller parts or only when the folders are detected to have changes.

I'd also like to confirm that Acronis is indeed the best backup software still?

Mr Hollywood · Nov 3, 2014

gamerxavier :

1)If your going to defrag only do it every so often because its been know to do bad things if ran every day.
2)To maintain space after defraging you must clear free space http://www.howtogeek.com/137108/how-securely-overwrite-free-space-in-windows/
3)Its your opinion on what is the best but overall yes
4) Dont keep your backup files in the same NAS as your files because if the NAS fails you could possible loose it all.

gamerxavier · Nov 3, 2014

Mr Hollywood :

gamerxavier :

1)If your going to defrag only do it every so often because its been know to do bad things if ran every day.
2)To maintain space after defraging you must clear free space http://www.howtogeek.com/137108/how-securely-overwrite-free-space-in-windows/
3)Its your opinion on what is the best but overall yes
4) Dont keep your backup files in the same NAS as your files because if the NAS fails you could possible loose it all.

The system these hard drives are in consists of some of my old hardware. i5-2500k, 8GB ram, 120GB SSD for boot, asrock Z77 extreme4, etc.
The system itself is very stable and I doubt it'll come into an issue with anything failing.
The hard drives are all under constant fans blowing on them, home built (fairly ugly) case I used to store this in another room.

Mr Hollywood · Nov 3, 2014

gamerxavier :

Mr Hollywood :

The system these hard drives are in consists of some of my old hardware. i5-2500k, 8GB ram, 120GB SSD for boot, asrock Z77 extreme4, etc.
The system itself is very stable and I doubt it'll come into an issue with anything failing.
The hard drives are all under constant fans blowing on them, home built (fairly ugly) case I used to store this in another room.

OK that sounds good just remember to pull the drives if anything were to ever go bad. otherwise you sound like you have a stable setup!

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