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    Asus G74. (how) 2 hard drive work as one?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by fs2004, Jul 19, 2011.

  1. fs2004

    fs2004 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone.

    first i am sorry if my english is not clear.

    i've got G74SX-A1 with windows 7 home premium 64 recently. RAM, CPU and Vidoe card all are good and getting 7 of score, hard drive is getting 5.9 of score. so that whats slows every thing! so the questing is: how to find out if both Hard drives are working as one or not? so that i can get advantage of the speed of both?

    and if i found that they are working separated (and thats what i think actuly), how to make them work as one to get better speed?

    Both hard drive are (750GB 7200rpm)

    please check the attached pic for score rating
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    btw, is the paging file of hard disk going to help someway?
    is there any way to let the Ram help hard drive? cuz i got 16GB of RAM


    Thank you.
     

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  2. Geared2play.com

    Geared2play.com Company Representative

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    there is nothing you can do to speed up the drive. this has no support for raid even if it did the wie score would barely improve. the best hard drive upgrade is an ssd drive
     
  3. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    WEI will always give a score of 5.9 to a stanard hard drive. They hard drive is the bottle neck to your system but only during read/write times. In actual programs/gaming the hard drive has very little to do with how well the comptuer performs, thats up to the CPU, GPU, and RAM. The hard drive only comes into play when you are loading new maps/zones.

    As Geared2play mentioned the only way to speed up the drive in that Asus is to add an SSD
     
  4. fs2004

    fs2004 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok. but is there any way to find out if both Hard drives are working as one or not? so that i can get advantage of the speed of both?

    thanks
     
  5. G74SXr

    G74SXr Notebook Enthusiast

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    See post #2.