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    AW14 3 x 250gb raid 0

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by pathfindercod, Jan 28, 2014.

  1. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    So i decided to expand on the 14 a little. I was running 2 x 250gb Samsung Evo drives. I added a new EVO 250gb mSATA drive to increase it to 3 drives in raid 0.

    with two drives
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    Three drives in raid 0
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    and the small increase it gave. :)
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    pathfindercod, Jan 28, 2014
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    Wattser93 Notebook Consultant

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    Might I suggest snipping tool. :p

    1.5 GB/s reads and 1.1 GB/s writes are crazy fast. My first SSD read at about 250MB/s (SATA2) and wrote at around 150MB/s and I was thrilled with the performance (can't remember the exact numbers). Is it noticeably faster than a single SSD? I've never used SSDs in RAID.

    Here's a single 500GB Samsung 840 FWIW.

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    Wattser93, Jan 28, 2014
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  3. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah snipping, was in a hurry grabbed my phone :) I'm headed out for emergency trip. Yeah I can tell a difference with raid 0. Some peole say you can't. I really do, that's why I'm running raid ssd's in all my machines. Two second boot time and virtually zero wait for anything love it.
     
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  4. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    THAT LOOKS AWESOME! :) Thanks for sharing the results. :) I'll share it with the team :thumbsup:
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jan 29, 2014
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    ken_e1407 Newbie

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    Where did you buy the caddy drive bay???? I dont need my dvd drive. I am still looking for the caddy drive bay (2nd) please advise.

    Many thanks
     
    ken_e1407, Feb 21, 2014
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  6. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    Alienware had them in stock when I got mine back in october. Unfortunately AW/Dell is the only place to get the OEM bracket right now. Hopefully all these spare parts will start making their way out to other vendors soon.

    I would try seeing if they will let you place and order and the backorder will hopefully be filled soon.
     
    pathfindercod, Feb 21, 2014
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  7. Alienware-Natalia_J

    Alienware-Natalia_J Company Representative

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    Send me a PM, I´ll help you find the parts.
     
    Alienware-Natalia_J, Feb 24, 2014
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