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My question is in regards to defragmenting windows 2000 servers.

I currently have several servers (exchange, ISA, DC's) all running raid-5 arrays.
Do I simply defrag the same as I would a regular volume.  

Open disk management, select the partition (c: or d:), and defrag.  Will this take a long time to complete for approx. 100GB

or do I need to purchase defrag software to complete this.



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Is there any space requirements that need to be met, in regards to free space on the volume.
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It varies according to the sizes of the files on the volume - but can be as high as 51%. You will be warned if there is not enough space to defrag and then you will have to move some data off the drive temporarily.

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Thanks for the info..  I am going to research some server software that is reasonably priced, any thought on a low cost third party software.  Wow that sounds really funny..  Is there such a thing :-)