Defragment a raid 0 ?

[FictiousWill]

I've installed and uninstalled loads of crap on my new comp. I'd like to defrag. I'm running a raid 0 (striped) set. Do I have to do anything special or should the windows defragment utility be fine? Will it recognize my raid setup and defragment accordingly? Or will it do something wierd like reorder all my data on one of the two drives?

 

[h00dlum]

I've installed and uninstalled loads of crap on my new comp. I'd like to defrag. I'm running a raid 0 (striped) set. Do I have to do anything special or should the windows defragment utility be fine? Will it recognize my raid setup and defragment accordingly? Or will it do something wierd like reorder all my data on one of the two drives?

with XP it does it ...i think...

 

[63]

Just make sure you have all the recent Windows Updates..

 

[FictiousWill]

Damn. Windows is downloading an update now. Crazy os.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Moved.

 

[DreamThrall]

Windows defrag will get the job done, but it is far from the best defrag available. (At least in 2k, not sure what/if they changed for XP). I use symantec's speeddisk, and I'm sure there are several others that are available.

 

[blahblahblah]

Just defrag it. Even though you have 2 physical harddrives, windows thinks you only have one. It is perfectly fine to defrag your harddrive when you have RAID 0.

In fact, I need to do mine soon.

 

[psyno]

What's important is the file system, not the disk or array. The defrag utility supplied with Windows is capable of defragmenting NTFS and a few FAT file systems. Underneath, there could be a single disk, an array, dancing monkeys -- it really doesn't matter. The file system is an abstraction.

 

[FictiousWill]

True, I was mostly worried about windows undoing the purpose of my raid 0, moving all the data onto one disk.

The defrag's done, and each file has 1 fragment. Loading windows and farcry is as speedy as ever. Looks like it worked fine.

Thanks guys