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I have the same setup: one 250Gb drive with 2 partitions - a 10Gb volume for OS, MP, and any other applications, and the remaining volume for media. I would recommend against adjusting your cluster size though if you store more than just large videos on your media volume - I store pictures and MP3's as well, which are quite small, and having an excessive cluster size will reduce performance as well as increase the size on disk of these items.

There's no need for MP to wake the machine up to do the job, since its not MP's responsibility to manage the underlying operating system.

I use the built in windows task scheduler and run disk defrag on both volumes once every week early in the morning. the machine wakes up and runs the defrag. Powerscheduler is set to shut down the HTPC after 5 minutes of inactivity, and since a defrag is done once a week, the defrag completes very quickly. It's only the first or second time running a defrag that it takes forever since the disk is so fragmented to begin with. each run after that should go quite fast.

<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 242927" data-attributes="member: 14004">I have the same setup: one 250Gb drive with 2 partitions - a 10Gb volume for OS, MP, and any other applications, and the remaining volume for media. I would recommend against adjusting your cluster size though if you store more than just large videos on your media volume - I store pictures and MP3's as well, which are quite small, and having an excessive cluster size will reduce performance as well as increase the size on disk of these items.There's no need for MP to wake the machine up to do the job, since its not MP's responsibility to manage the underlying operating system. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I use the built in windows task scheduler and run disk defrag on both volumes once every week early in the morning. the machine wakes up and runs the defrag. Powerscheduler is set to shut down the HTPC after 5 minutes of inactivity, and since a defrag is done once a week, the defrag completes very quickly. It's only the first or second time running a defrag that it takes forever since the disk is so fragmented to begin with. each run after that should go quite fast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 242927, member: 14004"] I have the same setup: one 250Gb drive with 2 partitions - a 10Gb volume for OS, MP, and any other applications, and the remaining volume for media. I would recommend against adjusting your cluster size though if you store more than just large videos on your media volume - I store pictures and MP3's as well, which are quite small, and having an excessive cluster size will reduce performance as well as increase the size on disk of these items. There's no need for MP to wake the machine up to do the job, since its not MP's responsibility to manage the underlying operating system. :) I use the built in windows task scheduler and run disk defrag on both volumes once every week early in the morning. the machine wakes up and runs the defrag. Powerscheduler is set to shut down the HTPC after 5 minutes of inactivity, and since a defrag is done once a week, the defrag completes very quickly. It's only the first or second time running a defrag that it takes forever since the disk is so fragmented to begin with. each run after that should go quite fast. [/QUOTE]