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    raid 0 and m17 dont mix well

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by zfactor, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. julian-nold

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    I heard of the rumor that a DX installation after the driver installation shouldn't be as good as a DX installation befor the driver installation .... but normaly games just make you install DX after installing the grapic driver ... so I don't think it gives you a big improofment ... but may be (I just threw the word "defragmentation" in) it gives you a VERY little boost ...

    Sry, this is all I know/think.

    Greetings
    Julian
     
    julian-nold, Mar 13, 2009
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  2. Shockwave_Omega

    Shockwave_Omega Notebook Consultant

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    DirectX is nothing more then a program that helps with game preformance/playability. Without it some games will use OpenGL.. Other wont start at all. It has nothing much to do with speed. Just with the ability to play games and do other graphical stuff..

    Installing it before or after your graphicscard drivers will not give you a preformance boost.
     
    Shockwave_Omega, Mar 13, 2009
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  3. julian-nold

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    As far as I know there IS a speed difference ... (FPS) ... but wheather installiung DX directly after installing Vista gives you a boost ... I don
    t know.

    But the "test" is saw was quite old I guess 2005 or 2006.

    Greetings
    Julian
     
    julian-nold, Mar 13, 2009
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  4. DaniaFlAlien

    DaniaFlAlien Notebook Enthusiast

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    My m17 will be arriving next week. I've been ambivalent about the RAID 0. I've been thinking, if I have RAID 0 and one of the drives fail does that mean I will lose everything on both drives? I mean doesn't the information get split between both drives? If half of a project is on one drive and the other half of the project is on another drive and one drive fails won't I lose the entire project?
     
    DaniaFlAlien, Mar 13, 2009
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  5. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    yes, you will in fact lose all your data if one drive in a Raid0 setup fails. the data is completely striped (you can set the stripe lengths yourself, to a certain degree), so if one drive fails, you basically lose every second stripe, thus making the data nigh unretrievable.
     
    whizzo, Mar 13, 2009
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  6. zfactor

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    yup raid 0 one drive fail and your sol....
     
    zfactor, Mar 13, 2009
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  7. HaloGod2007

    HaloGod2007 Notebook Virtuoso

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    i was just wondering if i need to update directX after fresh install of vista and all the drivers
     
    HaloGod2007, Mar 13, 2009
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  8. E-wrecked

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    Download the latest DirectX from M$oft's site and install. Windows Update won't likely do so.. If I remember right, november 08 or january was the latest DirectX update available unless something has come along in the past month.
     
    E-wrecked, Mar 13, 2009
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  9. Yamato

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    Right... however, the probability of an issue in any of your HDDs in the first months is... unnoticeable. If you are really worried about this issue, as I was, just buy an external HDD and backup your system regularly (I would go for an esata HDD since your M17 has an esata port in the rear).

    Backing up your data is a good pratice... no matter whether you have RAID 0 or not.
     
    Yamato, Mar 13, 2009
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