G1S-A1 and eSATA HDD "farm", ASUS global warranty

Hi, my budget has risen so i ve decided to buy this G1S-A1 beauty, probably from gentech.com or xoticpc.com. This laptop has everything i wanted. And i got only few questions about eSATA harddisks possibilities.

I d like to use this setup:

Disk 1 - internal disk 160GB 5.400rpm (Windows XP) - unchanged standard G1S-A1 disk
Disk 2 - eSATA 7.200rpm 500GB (Windows Vista)
Disk 3 - eSATA 300GB 7.200rpm (Linux Fedora Core)

Question: Are there any 10.000rpm eSATA HDDs????

Question: Does anyone boot their main OS from eSATA? Is the speed same? - Cause I d like to use the 500GB Vista HD as my primary disk.

Now what about drivers for either XP and Linux, have you tried anything? Question here is if I can get proper drivers for the main components (GPU, Wireless, ...), cause i guess this baby has some special drivers for the lights on the chasis and other stuff which i dont expect to be functional on Linux, but i dont need them there .

Also I have a question about global asus warranty - i ll be moving to europe, what if some of my components goes defective? How do I get it fixed in Europe?

 

You can get a 10,000rpm HD and put it in an eSATA HD enclosure.

 

Sounds like a REALLY BAD idea. Raptors heat up really really fast and a normal 7200rpm SATA HDD gets most enclosures warm after not too long...

You'd have to make sure that any eSATA enclosure you get is actively cooled. The only one I know of is the Antec MX-1, but even that I'm not sure would be able to keep a Raptor cool...

Booting from eSATA is essentially the same speed as booting from a normal SATA. It's merely an external version of SATA.

Have not tried Linux on my laptop yet.

If the warranty on your laptop says that it's a global warranty, it should be covered anywhere.

 

I would check to make sure your able to boot from Estata. Also If you want to hook up a few Esata connections you might want to consider getting a port multiplier, It lets you connect 5 hard drives to one sata connection, As a normal HD struggles to saturate the 100mbps even at burst you could connect 3 or even 4 HD's and have them running at full speed at the same time (Which isnt all that big a deal, How many times have you had 4 hard drives all transferring at the same time?.)

 

Your warranty will be fine anywhere, just contact the nearest branch to where you will be staying.

 

Actually there are at least three more =P

These look like they would be up to the task.

EDIT: And this one (which is bigger than my computer) could probably handle a 10K drive...or 5

EDIT #2: But if you did use a 10K drive it would actually be bottlenecked by the eSATA port, in burst mode (up to 105 on a 74GB drive)

 

The eSata Standard is 3.0Gbps, Same as Sata 3.0

 

You can boot from the esata, I use my XP through mine from time to time, It does seem to be slower booting however, It is suppose to be 3.0 giga bits per second, but I usually only get around 250 mega bits per second, from my hitachi 7200 rpm 2.5 inch. But I would say unless your playing games of the drive you should be good, especially with a 3.5 10k raptor.

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hey, thanks for your feedback guys