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September 10, 2008 09:57 AM

Categories: Hard Drives/Storage

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This may be a stupid question, but I would think that the drives in a server would require a defrag on a regular basis. Why would a server drive be any different than a drive on any other Windows System? I would like to know if I am clear off base on this. If not, is there any present way to acomplish it?

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September 10, 2008 12:51 PM updated: September 10, 2008 1:04 PM

WHS drives also benefit from defragmentation just like any other Windows system. However, Microsoft recommends against using the in-built defragmenter that ships with WHS. So, it's advisable to use a third party defragmentation solution that works around the issues between the shadow copy service and defragmentation. For more information, see these blog posts.
http://www.diskeeperblog.com/archives/2007/11/diskeeper_2008_1.html
http://www.diskeeperblog.com/archives/2007/12/dk08_feature_sp.html

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