darcontek Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 I recently formatted my hard drive and I used bittorrent sync to back it up. I defragmented first and got to 0% fragmented. After using bittorrent sync to back up my files, my hard drive went from 0% to 32% fragmented. Is there a way to assure that this does not happen? Any settings I can fumble with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dms2013 Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Try defrag. There is a freeware called defraggler you can try out too Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darcontek Posted December 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 I did defrag. I got it down to 1%... but I want to make sure that this never happens again when I use bittorrent sync. Is there anything I can do? Why doesn't sync pre-allocate space like regular bittorrent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Add this to the long wishlist, it might be integrated at some point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 You can also reduce the fragmentation of your Hard Drive caused by Sync by increasing the values of the advanced settings "recv_buf_size" and "send_buf_size" within Sync. These are set to 5 (MB) by default, but if you increase these buffer sizes, more data will be stored in memory before subsequently being read from/written to your Hard Drive - meaning less frequent disc access, leading to less fragmentation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darcontek Posted December 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Does syncing many folders each with different secrets at a time make any difference? Or will my drive be fragmented regardless if I'm only just syncing one folder or many folders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Does syncing many folders each with different secrets at a time make any difference? Or will my drive be fragmented regardless if I'm only just syncing one folder or many folders? The more Sync (or any software for that matter) reads from/writes to your hard disk, the more the disk will fragment over time. My suggestions above will help to reduce the frequency that Sync performs disk operations. If you're still concerned about disk fragmentation, it may be worth looking at moving away from traditional mechanical hard drives in favor of SSD drives instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darcontek Posted December 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2013 Well, I think syncing one folder at a time should reduce the problem. I think syncing many folders at once will fragment your harddrive, but I have to do some tests and verify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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