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    WD's 9.5mm Scorpio Blue 1TB laptop hard drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Altuno, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. Altuno

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    It's 9.5mm, so it should fit w/o problems.
     
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  3. Altuno

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    How well do you think two of these babies in RAID 0 will run against a vertex 3 SSD?
     
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    Not that good. On paper you'll get 170-230 MB/sec. in Raid 0 - a single Vertex 3 will bring you ~ 480MB/sec.
     
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    It's like trying to beat a transfer rate on floppy to usb drive.
     
    zoolian982, Aug 1, 2011
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    What a comparisson, zoolian ;)

    Anyway, I've got the 750GB WD Black *someWDname* + Agility 3 for Win 7 and I'm very happy with this setup. My WD is for games, files, etc. and can do ~120MB/sec. and my Agility does ~ 480MB/sec :)
     
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    RAID0 is useless for most users. Either way, 10x HDDs in RAID0 will never make up in speed to a SSD. The most important factors are access time and random R/W speeds, not sequential speeds, and HDDs are orders of magnitude lower than SSDs in this respect (even SSDs, random speeds don't saturate SATA/150, so going up to SATA/600 won't make much difference except for sequential speeds). If you have two slots for drives and are on a budget, you should consider a smaller SSD for OS and programs, and a large HDD for data.
     
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    i just buy it and it doesn't fit it! lol... it,s to big as we cannot connect to the sata without high pressure and the HDD is to big to close the ''computer case surface''...
     
    DARCODER, Aug 2, 2011
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    You bought the 12.5mm model, the 9.5mm model is hard to find if even at retailers yet. 12.5mm is the thickness of the dvd drive, for example.
     
    LVNeptune, Aug 2, 2011
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