High Interest Rate Online Savings look, it can be readily seen that file fragmentation does indeed impact a SAN. Physical members in a SAN environment are not read or written to directly by an application. Even the Windows file system sees each set of striped drives as one single drive. As an application reads and writes to this virtual environment (creating new files, extending existing ones, as well as deleting others) the files become fragmented. Because of this fact, fragmentation on each logical... read more
