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    save money on buying m17?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by rickscafe, Jan 6, 2009.

  1. rickscafe

    rickscafe Notebook Geek

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    im about to order me a m17 with 2gb ram and 160 gb hdd, 200$ for 4gb is way too much, ima get 4gb from a local dealer for 150$ and sell the original 1x2 gb for 50$ , ha
    and one question, how to enable raid 0 on this computer , can i enable it simply by pluging in the 2nd hdd and then changing the bios settings? :confused: and do i have to get a same hdd as the original one same capacity and same rpm? iso help!

    sry ima n00b
     
    rickscafe, Jan 6, 2009
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    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    for RAID 0, definitely same capacity. i'd go for the same speed as well. yes you can enable RAID in the BIOS AFAIK, but you'll have to reload/ghost your data&files.
     
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  3. rickscafe

    rickscafe Notebook Geek

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    it means all stored data will be gone , hmm i gotta buy a system recovery disk from aw then?
     
    rickscafe, Jan 6, 2009
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  4. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    i would recommend exact same models for any raid config.
     
    tianxia, Jan 6, 2009
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  5. Tom-

    Tom- Notebook Enthusiast

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    Restore disks, if available make sense
     
    Tom-, Jan 6, 2009
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  6. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    actually, you can "ghost" (copy the entire drive exactly as it is) the first disc onto an external HDD, add the second (internal ) HDD, set up RAID 0 (which will join the two internal HDDs into one (digital) drive), and then ghost your data from the external HDD back onto your new RAID 0 drive.
     
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  7. Levenly

    Levenly Grappling Deity

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    g.skill has 4gb of PC3-8500 RAM for $95 on newegg.
     
    Levenly, Jan 6, 2009
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  8. rickscafe

    rickscafe Notebook Geek

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    thx guys， appreciated
     
    rickscafe, Jan 6, 2009
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