What Hard Drive is in YOUR g73jh-X1???

Quick question, I am ordering a second hard drive from new egg for Raid and I need the serial number of the 500 gig seagate that is in the X1

I know its the ST9500

but is it the ST9500420AS

or the ST9500420ASG

(one has "g shock protection" and the other doesnt)

I know i am nitpicking for raid but I just want the drives to be identical.

 

The G73JH does not have RAID support.....

 

ST9500420AS here.

 

Sabre is right. There is no RAID support in the G73.

 

Looks like you can setup raid1 in software with win7 post-install. Haven't googled this enough to know if it's really not doable to setup go-fast raid-0 post-install, so who knows?

How to install Windows 7 onto software RAID-0 - Super User

 

Hrmmmmm I could have swore I saw something about striping...but the guy posts that there is no performance gains...oh well....

 

Setting Up OS RAID With Windows 7 Ultimate | Overclockers


What about this?

Guy is showing some speed gains.

This guy also sings the praises of Windows 7 Raid...

 

I avoid software RAID like the plague

 

Yeah I'm not sure either, found different results while googling around. Some get increases, others don't. I have a feeling the ones who aren't getting an increase is having some issue with something, like doing this across partitions on drives or something strange like that.

I don't know though, raid 0 per design should be quite a lot faster then no raid at all.

 

There is a reason they make dedicated hardware for that

 

Me too. Not a fan of OS-based Raid. Even the Bios based raid setups on most motherboards aren't the same as dedicated separate hardware raid controllers with on-board battery backed up cache.

Though I don't suppose we'll ever see such a thing on a laptop

Oh yeah, Seagate Monumentus XT 500GB hybrid 7200 & WD Blue 640GB 5400

Cheers,

 

There are many laptops with raid, even some with hardware raid panzer06. But those do cost more as someone will now certainly point out. I guess it again just shows you get what you pay for.
But i dont really miss raid with having only 2 HD slots and certainly dont need it with having a X25-M G2 in one.

 

2 seagate momentus 500GB haha simple...maybe just go with an SSD + HDD combo or 2 SSD's dunno.

 

i suggest the SSD(C300)+ 500GB Momentus XT combo.. nothing beats it.

 

I built some mirrored software raid boxes for controlling a process at work. It was always breaking (losing sync) and having to rebuild the mirror. I'll never do that again. What a waste of time that was. That was on W2k3 Server, though.

 

Software RAID should be avoided, honestly. Without backup in my opinion ANY RAID should be avoided.

 

Why not just do raid where you get redundancy as well as read mirror speeds?

 

BUT THEY COST SOOO MUCH MORE $$$$$$$$$

 

Why in the world you want a RAID in a laptop???

If you want speed go for a SSD...If you want back up and redundancy data, go for a external HDD.. simple

 

My P-7805u ran very nicely with RAID-0, got a nice bump in performance, at around the same as a desktop drive.