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Originally Posted by hobbes_fan
Actually here's a somewhat strange question, in relation to my newest thread about NAS/RAID. Do you defrag drives in RAID config? Or does the striping render this moot?
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You still have to defrag a RAID disk. I found an interesting article that you might want to read that mentions about defragging RAID and a program called DiskKeeper to keep from circumventing the benefits of RAID. Here is the website with the article -
http://www.processor.com/editorial/a...=&bJumpTo=True . By the way, which RAID have you decided to use? I do not suggest using striping unless you want to chance at losing all of your data. If you can afford RAID 5, it would be a bit better.