HDD Software Raid 0 not efficient

[atcen]

Hi, 

 

some weeks ago I combined some of my hard drives to a single dive with the windows 10 software raid. 

Now i noticed that often only one of them runs at 100% and the other one idles. 

 

Any suggestions how i can improve performance? Something like a defrag to move files evenly across hdds?

[sh4z]

I'm not sure if it would help, but I'd normally set up RAID0 in the chipsets boot ROM. (hit the 'I' (?) key during startup mode, your CMOS/BIOS will need to be set in RAID mode)

 

Once the RAID array/volume is defined your disks will show as a single logical device under Windows. So you won't see two disk drive devices in Task Manager (AFAIK)

 

If that drive is an SSD I wouldn't recommend running a Defrag. It can actually increase performance but it also causes a lot of wear on the SSD. For Hard disk drives, there is no such concern.

 

Some older SSD's can have a positive performance increase by running a secure erase. I usually do this before re-installing Windows or other operating systems on SSDs.

 

Always backup before making changes to your disk configuration.