Defragging a RAID?

[BowDown]

Is this a no-no? A defrag program moves files around (fragments) to optimise seek-times and free up disk space... but in a RAID the defrag program isn't defragging a real hard drive... it would be defragging a virtual hd that is actually 2 drives?

Anyone see a prb here?

 

[John]

I run raid in Win 2K and use Diskeeper 5.03.340b and defrag every other week.

 

[mschell]

The fact that 2, 4 or 6 drives are used in a RAID array is transparent to the operating system and the programs on it. There are utilities however that read the BIOS and can see the individual drives. The striping translation that makes the RAID array seem like one drive to the OS take more CPU resources but it shouldn't be a problem with any faster CPU.

 

[Stephen24]

Yea, what he said.

 

[Bluga]

Just defrag as normal.