Odd Q About Defragging Software

Greenlizard0 · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:17

I have a RAID 0 setup, and use Asiologics Defragment software (very nice bit of kit that).

This might sound an odd question but in the past if I had a single drive any defragging software would rearrange files such that they would be moved into a sequence that is optimal for speed (in a nutshell??).

How does said piece of software now know what to do when an operating system is spread across more than one drive e.g. like in my aforementioned setup?

Therefore is there any point in me using it any more?

Greenlizard0 · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:17

Nobody? Aww.

brummie · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:25

Said software doesnt know any different and will still do its job.

Greenlizard0 · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:28

brummie said:
Said software doesnt know any different and will still do its job.

Will that then affect me in a negative way because of my RAID setup then?

brummie · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:30

no, you should still benefit.

markyb · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:16

Good Question,

no, you should still benefit.

Why should you still benefit?

brummie · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:19

markyb said:
Good Question,

Why should you still benefit?

Because there is no reason why you shouldnt

bledd · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:38

each file is split 50:50, so the first 1mb file on the drive will be half on one drive, half on the other, windows will see the drives as one drive the hardware controller will take care of the splitting

windows will be none the wiser, so neither will the defrag software

Greenlizard0 · 9 Jul 2007 at 08:24

bledd. said:
each file is split 50:50, so the first 1mb file on the drive will be half on one drive, half on the other, windows will see the drives as one drive the hardware controller will take care of the splitting

windows will be none the wiser, so neither will the defrag software

So there isn't any point in me using defrag software?

mattyrigby00 · 9 Jul 2007 at 09:15

because the drive appears as 1 drive to windows and itll put all the files to the start of the drive it sees but i dont even know if itd help

bledd · 9 Jul 2007 at 09:31

greenlizard0 said:
So there isn't any point in me using defrag software?

as in, defiantly still use defrag software!

Greenlizard0 · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:49

bledd. said:
as in, defiantly still use defrag software!

Thanks, sorry I didn't mean to sound snappy in my previous post, this is something that just bugged the hell out of me lol.