I just did a live recording (9 tracks), and took a look at the fragmentation of my disk - I was surprised to see a big fat fragmented chunk on the disk - I went to defrag ... but stopped myself.
I'm presuming that when REAPER recorded the tracks, it did so in the order the sound came in - so all of the data for second 1 is together, all the data for second 2 is together etc etc. Therefore, defragging would harm my disk performance if I keep my edits to a minimum and keep the 9 tracks all running consecutively. Right?
I think your right, here. The files are fragmented, but the recorded data should be fairly grouped together. Although, defraging empty space before recording probably wouldn't hurt.
Did you not have the big fragmented space before recording?
In theory all the same recorded tracks should be together anyway and not be fragmented. I'd say it was other stuff that was fragmented..
No because, if he records multiple files, it interleaves the chunks that get written to disk, defrag sees it as "fragmented" because the individual files aren't in order, that is lined up end to end or at least consecutive.
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