Vista defrag utility supports RAID ?

[Guest]

Hi,

I have an EVGA nForce 680i mobo with a hardware RAID controller on it. I
installed Vista on a 2 x 150GB Raptor RAID 0 array. I'd like to know if the
Vista (or Live OneCare) disk defragmenter utility supports RAID configuration
(from a hardware controller) ? Because I'm afraid that all the datas being
moved to one disk of the array during defragmentation and therefore l would
loose the speed gain from an RAID 0 array.

 

[Robert Moir]

Hi,

I have an EVGA nForce 680i mobo with a hardware RAID controller on
it. I installed Vista on a 2 x 150GB Raptor RAID 0 array. I'd like to
know if the Vista (or Live OneCare) disk defragmenter utility
supports RAID configuration (from a hardware controller) ? Because
I'm afraid that all the datas being moved to one disk of the array
during defragmentation and therefore l would loose the speed gain
from an RAID 0 array.

Vista's defrag tool will never ever know that you have a hardware raid
installed, nor will it care. It'll just see your raid 0 disk as one hard
drive and treat it as such for the defrag, and due to the way hardware raid
works this means your data will be distributed around all the disks in the
array just fine.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much.

Vista's defrag tool will never ever know that you have a hardware raid
installed, nor will it care. It'll just see your raid 0 disk as one hard
drive and treat it as such for the defrag, and due to the way hardware raid
works this means your data will be distributed around all the disks in the
array just fine.