Question About RAID 5 Enclosure

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solaris54

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This question would probably appy to any RAID system.

Im running a Sans Digital Raid 5 Enclosure with 5 2TB drives. Im using it for DVD movies. At this point I have around 4TB used already.

At some point I may remove movies and continue installing others.
Can I run disc cleanup and disc defragmenter on the RAID 5 without problems?

Is it recommended to free up space after removing DVD movies?
 
You should be able to without a problem. I have mine running in Linux, with a XFS file system. I go through every once and a while, and defragment it without any issues. The OS should just see it as 1 big drive, and treat it as such.
 
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