defragging RAID 0?

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So I've had my computer running with RAID 0 for over a year now without ever
defragging. I just installed a defrag program (O&O Defrag) and it's telling
me that the drive(s) is 67% fragmented. I don't know if it's really that
fragmented or if that's how the program interprets the data striping. Any
ideas? I'm just wondering if a defrag interferes with the way data is
supposed to be stored in a RAID 0 set up.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Hardware RAID is transparent to the OS and applications; a RAID array appears as a single drive. Software RAID is controlled by the OS but is transparent to most applications, except from some utilities. Don't know if O&O defrag can detect software RAID, but in any case it should defrag it as a normal drive.
 
So I've had my computer running with RAID 0 for over a year now without ever
defragging. I just installed a defrag program (O&O Defrag) and it's telling
me that the drive(s) is 67% fragmented. I don't know if it's really that
fragmented or if that's how the program interprets the data striping. Any
ideas? I'm just wondering if a defrag interferes with the way data is
supposed to be stored in a RAID 0 set up.
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No, it needs defragged.
 
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