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    M17x R4 - Solid State Hybrid in Raid 0?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by CrossXedge, Jun 11, 2013.

  1. CrossXedge

    CrossXedge Notebook Consultant

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    I'm thinking of getting new harddrives for my laptop. I don't really have much saved on here except for games from Steam and music. I'm running out of space on both (all them Steam sales). I know I can delete them and redownload them, but my ISP has a bandwidth cap. And I don't want to keep uninstalling and reinstalling.

    I was wondering if it would be a good idea to run two Seagate Solid State Hybrid 1TB in a Raid 0? Would there be a significant speed increase?
     
    CrossXedge, Jun 11, 2013
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  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Seagate dont recommend raiding hybrid drives. Msata caching standard drives would be more ideal.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 11, 2013
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  3. Alienware-L_Porras

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    I would suggest to run them separately, I simply think that the boost in speed is not that much and would consider more important to have a completely stable machine.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jun 12, 2013
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  4. FrozenSolid

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    Hi CrossEdge,

    As an alternative to installing new drives you can move the actual game folder to an external storage drive to give you more space. If you go into Steam / Steam apps / common and then grab the game or games you are not likely to be playing for a while and move them onto a portable storage drive. In Steam the game will show up as installed but if you try and run it you will get an error message. If you want to play the game again later then just copy it back into the Steam / common folder and it works again.

    What I don't know is what will happen when Steam does one of its periodic updates but I assume that at the most when you copy the game back Steam have to do a verify of the game and that is fairly quick process.
     
    FrozenSolid, Jun 12, 2013
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