Hi guys I have seen many articles about hardware RAID but my question is If I have a SOFTWARE RAID 5 volume consisting of 4 disks on windows 2008 Enterprise server. How can I defrag it and are there any thing special to thonk of before doing that? Thanks for any help

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:59:49 +0000, Freeman999 wrote: >I have seen many articles about hardware RAID but my question is If I have a SOFTWARE RAID 5 volume consisting of 4 disks on windows 2008 Enterprise server. How can I defrag it and are there any thing special to thonk of before doing that? RAID just looks like one disk to the O/S. You needn't do anything special. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Here's from Diskeeper: The file system driver, NTFS.sys, handles the logical location (what the operating system, and a defragmenter affect). The actual 'writing' is then passed to the fault tolerant device driver (hardware or software RAID), which then, according to its procedures, handles the placement of files, and generating parity information, finally passing the data to the disk device driver (provided by drive manufacturer). File Fragmentation: Defragging SANs, NAS and RAID Hardware http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag/file-fragmentation-sans-nas-raid.aspxMCTS: Messaging | MCSE: S+M

Totally agree with both of them. Cheers,Gulab | MCITP: Exchange 2010-2007 | Skype: Gulab.Mallah | Blog: www.ExchangeRanger.Blogspot.com

Hi Freeman, Note this forum is for the issue related with exchange, hope you could post the issue on proper forum. You will get more help from there. Regards! GavinPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.