Windows 10: Optimizing USB disk shared via NAS

I've got a 1.5 TB Samsung Story Station Plus Connected to a Netgear Readynas Ultra 4 using USB 2 (606 GB used, some 129K files in 9600 folders). It is powered by external PS. The drive is shared using Netgear's software.

After adding quite a lot of new files to the drive the responce has become rather slow specially when changing folders on root level. I've read somewhere that it's not possible to optimize a network drive using the Windows utility. Anybody knows if there is a clue?

Is it for instance possible to power down the NAS, detach the drive, attach it to a USB port on another computer, run optimizing and the reconnect it to the NAS without loosing anyting on it?

Thanks!


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Disk optimization scheduling in Windows 10

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

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  In search select Defragment and optimize drives
  
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  Click on change settings
  
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  In optimization schedule
  
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  In frequency select the options accordingly.
  

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.

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Please suggest Best 4TB NAS External Hard Disk

Hi Guys,

Please suggest Best 4TB NAS External Hard Disk.

There are only two WD or Segate

What I want:-

1.USB 3.0
2.LAN port
3.Torrent client
4.DLNA streaming

Please suggest if you have any experiences

Thanks.

 

disk optimizing

Hi fussy063, the System Reserved Partition does not need to be optimized, it is managed and maintained by Windows.

If you are using Norton's to optimize your disk(s), remove that partition from the list of partitions to be optimized and everything will be Okay.