defragging RAID 0?

8 Mar 2005 7:15 PM

Nikko

So I've had my computer running with RAID 0 for over a year now without ever
defragging. I just installed a defrag program (O&O Defrag) and it's telling
me that the drive(s) is 67% fragmented. I don't know if it's really that
fragmented or if that's how the program interprets the data striping. Any
ideas? I'm just wondering if a defrag interferes with the way data is
supposed to be stored in a RAID 0 set up.

Thanks in advance for your help.

8 Mar 2005 9:46 PM

Mike Walsh

Hardware RAID is transparent to the OS and applications; a RAID array appears as a single drive. Software RAID is controlled by the OS but is transparent to most applications, except from some utilities. Don't know if O&O defrag can detect software RAID, but in any case it should defrag it as a normal drive.

Nikko wrote:

>
> So I've had my computer running with RAID 0 for over a year now without ever
> defragging. I just installed a defrag program (O&O Defrag) and it's telling
> me that the drive(s) is 67% fragmented. I don't know if it's really that
> fragmented or if that's how the program interprets the data striping. Any
> ideas? I'm just wondering if a defrag interferes with the way data is
> supposed to be stored in a RAID 0 set up.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

9 Mar 2005 12:00 AM

kony

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:15:02 GMT, "Nikko"
<notha***@yourmomma.com> wrote:

>So I've had my computer running with RAID 0 for over a year now without ever
>defragging. I just installed a defrag program (O&O Defrag) and it's telling
>me that the drive(s) is 67% fragmented. I don't know if it's really that
>fragmented or if that's how the program interprets the data striping. Any
>ideas? I'm just wondering if a defrag interferes with the way data is
>supposed to be stored in a RAID 0 set up.
>

No, it needs defragged.