Defraging a RAID 0 array?

Greetings,

I have recently purchased a "true hardware RAID Controller card" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] k=arc-1200 The performance increase is really noticeable...

The problem I'm having is that after a clean install of Vista 64 on 2 new HHD's with the RAID controller... All my software loaded and everything set the way I wanted it... and tried to defrag the array, using a licensed copy of Perfect Disk 2008... Everything seemed to start off ok... but at some point in the defrag, the RAID crashed and of course I had to start over...

Any insight on what happened and what is the trick to defraging an array? I'm not ready to try it again... lol, until I exhaust my options first...

Thanks

I've since read some other forums and found there may be a driver conflict... with ha20x2k.sys this file seems to be related to X-Fi. Not sure how it all comes together but... I have also requested support from Raxco on the subject...

hagatha

Crash as in the card alarm went off... and if you tried to reboot it would just hang... no BIOS... nada... I had to go into the RAID setup (the only option I had) and delete the array and start from scratch... that kinda crash...

hagatha

Thanks!
The array is a RAID 0 Striped... the disks are new Seagate 250's, when I "analyze" the array using PD2008 it is shown as a single disk of 500gb. Before I setup the RAID I did a chk dsk and a new format NTSF, there were no issues with the drives.


Thanks again
hagatha

Also, disks repair themselves. Analyse the SMART data and look for an attribute "Reallocated sector count" to see if the drive has repaired itself. A drive which previously had problems can still pass all tests; thus masking its earlier (fixable) defect.

While fixing media errors, drives may get kicked out of the array because the controller expects the drive to respond in an amount of time. If they don't, it will get dropped outside of the array and you have to merge/re-activate the array again.