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Defragging the iPod

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cutefangs:
Just wondering if there's any point, any harm, anything to defragging the iPod through Windows XP.

ryran:
yes, no, yes.

in practice, if you just tend to use any jukebox as a big archive of your music (as in, you mostly just keep adding more things), the hard drive isn't going to get very fragmented. have a look yourself (analyze button).

Yotto:
However, if you do a massive reorganizing (Like take your songs that are all in one directory and move them to their own directories by artist/album/whatever) then, when you are totally done and ready to use your iPod as just an archive of all your music, you should probably defrag.  It shouldn't hurt anything if you do it a couple times in your iPod's entire life cycle .

mnhnhyouh:
However defragging is a long and HD intensive process. Much better to just delete everything, and copy it back on.

Then the files will not be fragmented, and the HD wont be working for as long.

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Deano:
I would have thought that running a disk intensive process, like a Scandisk or Defrag on an external hard drive like the iPod's would not be good for it. Simply put, the heat that is likely to be generated by the drive during the process *may* be more detrimental to the overall disk than leaving it fragmented.

I have noticed no particular performance drops in playing music without doing a defrag, so I fail to see the point in doing one.

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