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Does cloning a hard drive also carry over fragmentation? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Apptryiguess on 2024-07-07 10:10:58.

I have a 18TB Exos that has a bunch of media files that need to be replaced / moved. Probably 5-10TB is going to be moved, deleted, redownloaded... . I could delete everything that needs to be deleted, then move everything around, then do a defrag, then redownload everything, but that's too much planning and it "ties" me down to my final order.

If i were to move a bunch of files around, cause a bunch of fragmentation, then use a cloning dock to clone the 18TB drive to a new 20TB, would the 20TB also be severely fragmented? The cloning dock i have copies over entire sectors, so there's that. Oh and the file system is NTFS and everything would be done under Windows.

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