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raid-0 Defragmentation?

NaorG
By NaorG
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I Just Built a Raid 0 system, and I was wondering if defragging the drive is a good idea? I mean, considering the point of a RAID system is to have fragmented files to speed up access time, would defragging the drive kill the whole purpose of a RAID drive?
The whole point of using RAID 0 was to increase my transfer rates. I don't want to defrag them and find out it moved all the data onto one HD and the other is not being used at all.

i use ssd for windows
and 2 hdd for raid 0 (for everything else)
 
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The fragmentation you're concerned about happens at filesystem level. Raid 0 happens at a lower level and the two are quite separate. It is fine to run defrag.

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