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Old 01-10-2004, 01:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can I defrag my RAID?
I have two WD 20 gig drives in RAID 0 using the Highpoint RAID controler on my Soyo Dragon KT400 mobo. Is there any use in defraging this array through Windows?

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Old 01-10-2004, 01:19 PM   #2 (permalink)
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It's seen as a partition and should defarg just like a normal partition that would be just on one single disk.

EDIT - I'm defragging mine right now, it didn't need it, but I'm doing it anyway.
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Old 01-10-2004, 01:25 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The RAID array is seen by windows as just another single hard drive. So you should be able to defrag/scandisk etc.
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Old 01-10-2004, 01:31 PM   #4 (permalink)
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See, it works.
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Thx. I figured it would work. I'm wondering if it works correctly as it doesn't actually see the disks as they really are.
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Old 01-10-2004, 06:15 PM   #6 (permalink)
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What's important is the file system, and that's really what is being defragmented.
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Old 01-10-2004, 08:38 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I do mine once a week. No sweat go ahead.
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Old 01-10-2004, 09:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Not an issue, we defrag our 7 RAID arrays at work weekly.

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