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xcharge50

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    Raid 0 Defrag question
    « on: March 16, 2009, 05:53:32 AM »
    Not sure if i'm posting in the good section but, I'm currently running windows vista ultimate. Also 2 HD-500-SATA2-SG harddrive on raid 0. Should I defrag the drive? Or doing so will remove the purpose of doing Raid 0?

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    Re: Raid 0 Defrag question
    « Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 05:58:51 AM »
    the RAID controller sorts all that out...as far as the operating system sees there is only one drive there. Defragging will always help. RAID 0 means that the data is striped across X drives. So if you defrag it, then the data will be consecutive on disk. This lessens the need for head movements on both drives, since the data is side-by-side on disk. It doesn't matter RAID or not. It should always help.

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      Re: Raid 0 Defrag question
      « Reply #2 on: March 16, 2009, 06:19:17 AM »
      Thank you very much!