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Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS, and RAID?

Overview The perception that fragmentation does not affect SANs, NAS, and RAID is incorrect. Disk arrays improve I/O performance, but they aren't invulnerable to fragmentation. This white paper explains the relationship between the logical disk with which the operating system interacts and the physical drive array, and shows why arrays are just as prone to fragmentation as a single physical drive. Read this white paper and discover the technical issues concerning fragmentation, SANs, NAS, and RAID.

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Publisher	Diskeeper	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007	Downloads	32
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-up, RAID, Storage Management, NAS, SANs

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