Is automatic defragmentation during idle time good with Raid 0 ?
 

I would think so.. but no one on google agrees.. so I came to gfy
Sigh :winkwink:

Ah, and, if I try to do a boot time defrag of system files.. is that a bad idea at all? I wouldn't think so since it'll see both drives as one even at boot time

Seriously whoever told you to set up raid 0 needs to be bitchslapped.

Read up on how Raid works and you'll see why.

At the very minimum you should have 2 drives that use raid 1 (mirror) and then still backup regularly.

Hard drives are cheap if you data is worth saving you'll put a better plan in place.

Also when you set up the raid it pays to buy spare new drives at the same time because if a drive takes a dump on you in 6-12 months time that same model may be no longer available and rebuilding you raid array will be next to impossible depending on your raid controllers capabilities.

If you don't do your research and have a fallover plan in place before it happens raid can actually lead to you losing everything.

Fault Tolerance: None. Failure of any drive results in loss of all data, short of specialized data recovery.

Good luck.

Wow, I appreciate the responses. Someone on here looking out for me - that is nice to see!! See, I know how unreliable RAID0 with 2 drives is, but I have multiple backups. The new setup I bought (used) came this way

I need an slc SSD, badly. I could just run with the SSD all day and sync to a RAID1 nightly or during idle time.

Having RAID0 is a whole new world for me. I can't tell you how often my io operations are a huge bottleneck for me. Having an SSD will be incredible.

As I understand it, if one drive fails the whole thing is 100% unrecoverable. But I can add a third drive for 0+1. But the third drive will slow my writes down straight to hell?

And I think you can do raid 0 with two different sized drives, but you'll be limited to the size of the smallest drive?