OT: Can a RAID5 array be defragged?

[GeoffS]

see topic... dunno... it's quite fragged at the moment... think it may really be degrading performance...

details... running Win2K Pro... Compaq RAID card, boot partition (only partition)... it's the stats server I'm asking about...

 

[networkman]

Yes, see Executive Software's "Diskeeper" product. Click on the Compatibility link, 3rd item down. 🙂

We use Diskeeper at work on mirrored volumes, Raid arrays, etc.

 

[GeoffS]

So... don't use Windows defragger?

 

[Crazee]

You can use Windows defragger. It has some limitations to it. It can only operate on local disk volumes; you can't launch a scan or a defrag of a volume on a machine residing across your network. Additionally, you can only defragment a single volume at a time, and you can't defrag one volume while scanning another. And according to Microsoft, you can't schedule a defragmentation job to run at a later time.

But to answer your question it will defrag a RAID 5 volume.

 

[GeoffS]

Originally posted by: networkman
Yes, see Executive Software's "Diskeeper" product. Click on the Compatibility link, 3rd item down. 🙂

We use Diskeeper at work on mirrored volumes, Raid arrays, etc.

Dowloaded the trial... worked great! Thanks! I may invest in that one! :thumbsup:

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: networkman
Yes, see Executive Software's "Diskeeper" product. Click on the Compatibility link, 3rd item down. 🙂

We use Diskeeper at work on mirrored volumes, Raid arrays, etc.

Dowloaded the trial... worked great! Thanks! I may invest in that one! :thumbsup:

I have used - and use - Diskeeper for more than 4 years on ATA, IDE, SCSI drives and RAID-arrays: never let me down. May be a little slow (on a filled RAID-array) - but works perfectly. 🙂