Question How to Defrag a WD MyCloud EX2 ?

[THRobinson]

Posted on the WD site, but from past experience, I am not expecting a response.

I have a NAS setup on my network, all Cat6 connected not WiFi. My NAS is the WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra, and I have 2x4TB drives setup as JBOD not RAID. Each drive shows as a separate drive, one for TV Shows, and one for Movies. My Win10x64 PC is a few feet away, also Cat6 ethernet, and has a removeable SATA drive bay, and the NAS drives are mapped as Y:\ and Z:\... so I have 2x4TB HDDs that I do mirror backups to and keep in a case on a shelf as a backup.

Been fine for years, upgraded from 2TB to 4TB and by next year probably replace all my drives with 8TB thanks to 4k movies and a bigger TV.

Anyways... the MyCloud utilities has check disk, format, etc... but no defrag!

After years of add/delete/rename/replacing files, I think a defrag is due. The drives show on THIS PC as mapped network drives so I can add/delete from my PC easily, but right clicking them and going to properties, no TOOLS show up ?

Any ideas? ... any non-Linux ideas?

 

[Aeacus]

Look if MyDefrag can locate the drives. If it can, you can defrag them with MyDefrag,
link: http://www.mydefrag.net/

MyDefrag was the de-facto software for me, to defrag my HDDs, when i was still using them. Nowadays, i'm full SSD (half M.2 NVMe, half 2.5" SATA).

 

[fzabkar]

I don't believe it is possible to do any sector level, or file system level, work on a NAS drive. Your only option is via the NAS's internal tools.

Otherwise you could copy your files to another device, delete the originals, and then copy them back again.

 

[THRobinson]

It's weird that WD doesn't have a tool for something like Defrag. The NAS has worked great for years but I gotta say, WD dropped the ball on a few things. Fan/heat control is a major issue.