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    Dead Hard Drive :(

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by weinstein888, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. weinstein888

    weinstein888 Notebook Evangelist

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    The hard drive with all my data on it unfortunately died this evening. My query is, if I purchase a new SSD, can I just plug it in and use it after installing the drivers? Does it need to be a specific type of SSD in order to be compatible with the RAID 0 format? I had 2 500 gb wd scorpion 7200rpms I believe before one of them died.
     
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    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    with RAID 0 I believe you need 2 identicle hard drives. SSD's are spendy, I think your better off buying a single SSD for the OS and a few apps and a data HD for the rest :)
     
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    That sounds like the best route to take.
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Yea, and since you lost one HDD, you second HDD us un usable since it was half a RAID 0 setup, so your best bet is to use the remaining drive as a storage drive. You'll need to format it. Unfortunately anything on that RAID 0 setup (both HDDs) is gone. The possibility of failure is the reason I I ran an image back up of all three of my drives over night lastnight. OS/Apps drive, Benching drive, and 1TB storage drive. Always good to have a backup. I try to create image backups as often as possible. Once I get an external 3TB drive, I will have it set to run backups once a week. Right now I do it when ever I remember :eek: At least once a month.
     
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    Pythagrean Notebook Guru

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    Right now I am using a Mushkin SSD 115GB for my OS and favorite games and I have a WD 750GB drive for everything else. I really like this setup and it seems to work really well.
     
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    You can have two different size drives for RAID 0, but it will format them both to the smaller size of the two drives. It is just usually not recommended though. :)
     
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    ah makes sense :) thanks for the clarification
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 23, 2011
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