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    Asus G50 - How to do Raid0 ?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by theknown, Aug 11, 2011.

  1. theknown

    theknown Newbie

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    I recently bought an Asus G50 laptop. It has 2 320gb HD's. I want to put them in raid0 but I have no idea how. I have Windows 7 x64 and can install it again.

    So first I have to enable RAID in the BIOS. I did that.

    EDIT:

    I also did Ctrl + I and 'made' 1 raid0 disk. Now it goes to Windows 7 installatation. No errors so far. I keep you guys updated.
     
    theknown, Aug 11, 2011
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  2. FlyingFalcon

    FlyingFalcon Notebook Evangelist

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    Do the G50 laptops support RAID? The pre sandy bridge g53/73 don't. I don't think the sandy bridge one's do either...
     
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  3. theknown

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    Please read the post above. I think it does? Or will it also get that far if it doesn't support raid?
     
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  4. theknown

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    Got it all working. How I did it:
    1. Go into BIOS (pressing F2).
    2. under the "advance" tab click on the "IDE ..." thingy, and set it to RAID.
    3. Now save settings and restart PC. When your motherboard thingy shows up press F2 again. It will load the BIOS, but press Ctrl + I quickly so you go into the RAID menu.
    4. Setup your RAID disk here.
    5. Install Windows 7
     
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  5. nadcicle

    nadcicle Notebook Guru

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    Not trying to disappoint, but I did raid on my G50 and there was absolutely a negligible effect. Maybe a few MB/s really. It's not worth restoring in case you lose a hard drive.

    I was also having a really weird issue when I would go to restart it would just hang and turn off certain parts of hardware. I probably should have tried once more, but I just decided to go ahead and go the G73 route instead.

    Anyways, here is my thread for reference:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...m/571108-g50vt-x5-restart-issue-raid-0-a.html

    I'm also aware that it could have just been localized to my computer, and this may be the case. Just thought I would give you a heads up is all.
     
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  6. theknown

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    Well, I'm not having any issues so far with the Raid0 configuration. And I don't care about losing everything if a HD crashes. Is there a higher chance of a HD crashing if you put them in Raid0 than using them normal?
     
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  7. nadcicle

    nadcicle Notebook Guru

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    Yes, in raid0 the hard drive has a less chance of being stopped from spinning. In a normal configuration when a hard drive is not being used it spins down more often to save power and go idle. Raid0 requires more spinning of the hard disks because they have to write data one after another and span the data over both hard disks.
     
    nadcicle, Aug 11, 2011
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