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| Thread ID: 81205 | 2007-07-20 05:40:00 | Defragging RAID1 drives in Vista | BrotherDragon (10117) | Press F1 |
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| 570502 | 2007-07-20 05:40:00 | The computer I had built when Vista came out has two 160gb hard drives in a RAID 1(?) configuration for data security. The computer only receives modest use but I guess after six months I should defrag the hard drives. I've never done this with Vista or with two hard drives mirroring each other. | BrotherDragon (10117) | ||
| 570503 | 2007-07-20 06:01:00 | Defrag will see the two drives as one big drive | Bantu (52) | ||
| 570504 | 2007-07-20 06:26:00 | Vistas built-in defragmenter is set to automatically defragment anyway. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 570505 | 2007-07-20 08:14:00 | Don't defragment. There's no benefit in doing it. | TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 570506 | 2007-07-20 09:38:00 | Don't defragment. There's no benefit in doing it. Rubbish |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 570507 | 2007-07-20 10:41:00 | Don't defragment. There's no benefit in doing it. How do you figure that? :illogical Less fragmented files will allow the HDD to work less to get the files (because there are less fragments of them) which in turn reduces the wear on the HDD, incresing the life of it. Also there is a performance gain with a drive that is not fragmented... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 570508 | 2007-07-20 16:17:00 | RAID is not immune to fragmentation. Windows sees the RAID as a single logical drive, not individual components, so it also becomes "logically" fragmented although "physical" fragmentation might be reduced (depending on the setup). So RAID performance is still hit by fragmentation. Ofcourse, for non-RAID systems, the performance problems with fragmentation on single disk setups is well known. Despite modern improvements in HDD technology and bigger drive caches, file fragmentation will slow down I/O intensive activities very noticeably, and sustained heavy fragmentation can also increase wear and tear on the drive because it has to do more work than if the file was contiguous. |
habu (12570) | ||
| 570509 | 2007-07-20 19:52:00 | Vistas built-in defragmenter is set to automatically defragment anyway. So I don't have to physically run a defrag program? How can I check the fragmentation status? Does MS Vista defrag do a good job or is there a better third party defrag utility for Vista? |
BrotherDragon (10117) | ||
| 570510 | 2007-07-20 21:18:00 | I don't have Vista or plan on getting it any time soon, but, take a look in Start/Program/Accessories/System Tools (Thats where it is on XP at least) you can run Disk Defragmenter and see if it is set to Auto or Manual. www.geekzone.co.nz Maybe Diskeeper is a better option than the Windows one. I use Diskeeper on my XP system and it works well. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 570511 | 2007-07-20 21:31:00 | So I don't have to physically run a defrag program? How can I check the fragmentation status? Does MS Vista defrag do a good job or is there a better third party defrag utility for Vista? Ive got 2 computers running vista and both do the defrag automatically so no you shouldnt have 2 physically run it. Bantu your right vistas defrager is located in the same place as xp. Vistas built in defrag seems to do an ok job, although there is probably a program that can do it better just google it. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
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