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Paladin9

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Defrag on RAID 0
« on: 15 March 2004, 21:19 »
I have raid striping; when I defrag, does all the data get moved to only one drive or does defraging help even the data out on the two drives?  I guess my question is, how does a defrag work on a RAID 0 set of HD's?
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Defrag on RAID 0
« Reply #1 on: 16 March 2004, 00:37 »
Probably, it puts data like this:

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D1(B1)+D2(B2)+D1(B3)+D2(B4)+D1(B5)+D2(B6) (D=drive)
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So teh data looks like this:

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B1+B2+B3+B4+B5+B6    (B=block)
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[ March 15, 2004: Message edited by: WMD ]

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