I'll be setting up a fileserver in the not too terribly distant future. I'll be using RAID1, but I have yet to be able to find an answer to a question that has been plauging me...<BR><BR>I've been ...

As far as raid arrays in general, nope. The OS sees it as one drive and defrags accordingly AFAIK. I don't use Dell equipment, so i can speak to any experience with that controller.

RAID, or “redundant array of independent disks,” uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk-drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive (Fig. 1). RAID 1 replicates data with a 50 ...

Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...