Defragment Array on Synology NAS
Overtime the free space on you hard drives can get spread out on the physical drive, slowing performance. In order to combat this you should defragment your hard drives on a simi-regular basis. This tutorial will cover how to defragment a hard drive array on Synology NAS. Overview Hard drive fragmentation is caused by the fact that when you delete something on a hard drive, it does not actually write over the data that was there. Instead the drive essentially forgets that data was ever stored there. This allows the data in this location to be overwritten the next time...