Defragment array disk ?

[suderman]

Hello,

I wanted to defragment array disks attached to a Windows machine.

Is it possible to do it on OS level for example with Windows disk Defragment tool ? Is it recommended ?
Could it improve perforamance (copying lot of small files) if fragementation is quite big ?

Equpment is Clariion CX300 with metaLUN consisting of 2 LUNs based on Raid 5.


Thanks.

 

[mrdenny]

While you can defrag the files on the disk so that the files are contiguous that will improve performance just like it will on local disk.

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