Leland,

No doubt that is true. I will have to qualify that I am talking about plain (non-RAID) systems.

But that also brings another question to mind (for academic purposes only)... RAID5's design is to spread records across spindles. I assume this is regardless of any fragmentation of a file as reflected in the file system itself. But is it???


cheers


>Hi Jim and Hilmar,
>
>From what I picked up from the web, Fragmentation is a good thing with a very large file that is spread out amount several disks using RAID.
>
>LelandJ