Can you? should I defrag my RAID 0

arnie2013 · 14 Aug 2015 at 19:32

Hi all

iv have my 2 x 1 TB western digital black performance edition hard drives in a RAID 0 format since I bought them about 2yrs ago and I would juts like to know

1. can I Defrag them just the same as defragging single drives without losing anything ( so isit safe to do so)

2. do RAID 0s need defragmenting? I'm guessing they just like any storage devices they do

3. Windows 10 defrag tools says the defrag on my RAID is unavailable, why is this? if I cannot defrag the RAID with windows should I download a tool that does or is their an option somewhere to enable RAID defrag within windows

thank you hope somebody can help

coupe69 · 14 Aug 2015 at 20:17

It's perfectly fine to defrag a RAID array.

What mainboard are you running? Have you got Intel Rapid Storage Monitor installed?

Unsure why you're unable to defrag on Windows 10, I've no issues here running it with my RAID 1 pack.

To be fair unless you've messed with any settings it should automatically defrag your drives for you on a weekly basis.

arnie2013 · 14 Aug 2015 at 20:22

Hi I have Intel rapid storage Technology in control panel yes

Yes when I open the windows 10 defrag tool, and I select my raid it says unavilable

coupe69 · 14 Aug 2015 at 20:57

I wonder if the windows assessment tool is seeing your drive pack as a SSD due to the speed?

Have you upgraded to Windows 10 or is it a fresh install?

Try re-running winsat (windows assessment tool)

Open an admin command prompt and type winsat formal -restart

arnie2013 · 16 Aug 2015 at 16:56

when I right click on my raid in explorer, and go to tools - degrag, and I click on the RAID

the optimize and analyse buttons are greyed out

arnie2013 · 16 Aug 2015 at 16:57

this is what the assesmsnt tool said

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>winsat formal -restart
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running the Formal Assessment
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-aname DWM -time 10 -fbc 10 -disp off -normalw 1 -alphaw 2 -width 1280 -height 1024 -winwidth C(1144) -winheight C(915) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -nolock'
> Assessing Desktop Graphics Performance
> Run Time 00:00:10.72
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-aname Batch -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 300 -batchcnt C(10) -objs C(26) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -texpobj C(1)'
> Assessing DirectX Batch Performance
> Run Time 00:00:00.33
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-aname Alpha -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 300 -batchcnt C(75) -objs C(26) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -texpobj C(1)'
> Assessing DirectX Alpha blend Performance
> Run Time 00:00:00.38
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-aname Tex -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 500 -batchcnt C(125) -objs C(20) -noalpha -texshader -totaltex 10 -texpobj C(4) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3'
> Assessing DirectX Texture load Performance
> Run Time 00:00:00.36
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-aname ALU -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 500 -batchcnt C(125) -objs C(20) -noalpha -alushader -totaltex 10 -texpobj C(1) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3'
> Assessing DirectX ALU Performance
> Run Time 00:00:00.34
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname Batch -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 300 -batchcnt C(10) -objs C(26) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -texpobj C(1)'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname Alpha -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 300 -batchcnt C(75) -objs C(26) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -texpobj C(1)'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname Tex -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 500 -batchcnt C(125) -objs C(20) -noalpha -texshader -totaltex 10 -texpobj C(4) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname ALU -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 500 -batchcnt C(125) -objs C(20) -noalpha -alushader -totaltex 10 -texpobj C(1) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname GeomF4 -time 7 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 150;200;241 -batchcnt C(50);C(200);C(300) -objs C(12);C(26);C(45) -noalpha -geomf4shader -texpobj C(0) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -tierframes 60 -tiertime 1'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname GeomV8 -time 7 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 75;100;120 -batchcnt C(25);C(100);C(150) -objs C(8);C(17);C(29) -noalpha -geomv8shader -texpobj C(0) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -tierframes 60 -tiertime 1'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment '-dx10 -aname CBuffer -time 5 -fbc 10 -disp off -animate 10 -width 1280 -height 1024 -totalobj 75 -batchcnt C(25) -objs C(8) -rendertotex 6 -rtdelta 3 -texpobj C(1) -cbuffershader -cbufa 2 -cbuff 5 -cbufp 6'
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Media Foundation Playback Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.wmv -nopmp'
> Run Time 00:00:01.75
> Running: Extended Media Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\Clip_1080_5sec_VC1_15mbps.wmv -video offscreen -audio mute -prevent3pc -width 100%m -height 100%m -constrain -savereg -autoprofname -expfrmmin 135 -expfrmmax 150 -overrideframetype prog'
> Run Time 00:00:06.44
> Running: Extended Media Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\Clip_1080_5sec_10mbps_h264.mp4 -video offscreen -audio mute -prevent3pc -width 100%m -height 100%m -constrain -savereg -autoprofname -expfrmmin 135 -expfrmmax 150 -overrideframetype prog'
> Run Time 00:00:06.36
> Running: Extended Media Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\Clip_480_5sec_6mbps_h264.mp4 -video offscreen -audio mute -prevent3pc -width 100%m -height 100%m -constrain -savereg -autoprofname -expfrmmin 135 -expfrmmax 150 -overrideframetype int2fps'
> Run Time 00:00:06.28
> Running: Media Decode/Encode Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsatencode.wmv -encode C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.prx'
> Run Time 00:00:02.20
> MOOBE Run Time 00:00:36.83
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption -up'
> Run Time 00:00:03.16
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression -up'
> Run Time 00:00:10.02
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption2 -up'
> Run Time 00:00:03.05
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression2 -up'
> Run Time 00:00:10.09
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption'
> Run Time 00:00:03.11
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression'
> Run Time 00:00:10.23
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption2'
> Run Time 00:00:03.17
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression2'
> Run Time 00:00:10.14
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.16
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 2'
> Run Time 00:00:06.38
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 2'
> Run Time 00:00:00.42
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:08.03
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 1'
> Run Time 00:00:09.30
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> CPU LZW Compression 652.69 MB/s
> CPU AES256 Encryption 1474.43 MB/s
> CPU Vista Compression 1653.62 MB/s
> CPU SHA1 Hash 2174.10 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU LZW Compression 161.42 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 368.82 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 413.14 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 544.32 MB/s
> Memory Performance 25010.64 MB/s
> Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s
> Direct3D Constant Buffer Performance 42.00 F/s
> Video Memory Throughput 82523.30 MB/s
> Dshow Video Encode Time 1.14922 s
> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.06425 s
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 269.43 MB/s 7.6
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 256.22 MB/s 8.0
> Total Run Time 00:01:59.23

arnie2013 · 16 Aug 2015 at 17:04

yes I have fresh installed windows 10, obviously the windows is installed onto my SSD