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Defrag and Raid 1


kenpachizero

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  • 2 weeks later...

Het Guys, i have 2 500GB drives in a raid 1, i just want to know if it is safe to defrag the drives and if defraggler and defrag raid 1 drives

 

From my experience (and reading up on the topic online) defragging a RAID is not an issue, though the defragging can go slow if caching options are not setup properly for the RAID. In either case it will not destroy data.

 

I believe what can be an issue is doing a ScanDisk (drive repair) on any striped RAID which would be RAID 0 or RAID 5 (and others but those are the common ones). So a RAID 1 (mirror) is OK even for ScanDisk.

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to mislead Ken!

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