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                | cbx | 
                Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 03:08:31 AM  I have often wondered about this question, and maybe someone here may know the answer. I am running 2 serial ata hard drives in raid 0 and was wondering weather or not windows defragmentor takes into account the fact that the harddrive is infact 2 drives in raid 0 and defragments it properly. 
  On the other hand I don't think it does? Can anyone clarify this? | 
               
              
                
               
              
                | cbx | 
                Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 12:09:20 PM  quote: Originally posted by Lachlan87
  Raid 0 creates one logical disk. To the OS, it's no different than a single hard drive. RAID 0 is striping RAID. This means that each every other 16kb of data in the logical drive is assigned by hardware to a different disk. The OS has no clue, so defragging will work normally. When the data is re-organized and shifted to the front of the "disk", it is still split between the two drives, giving you your performance boost.
 
  
  I think I understand now. Thanks. | 
               
              
                | Lachlan87 | 
                Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 07:55:44 AM  Raid 0 creates one logical disk. To the OS, it's no different than a single hard drive. RAID 0 is striping RAID. This means that each every other 16kb of data in the logical drive is assigned by hardware to a different disk. The OS has no clue, so defragging will work normally. When the data is re-organized and shifted to the front of the "disk", it is still split between the two drives, giving you your performance boost. | 
               
             
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