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    G50VT-x1 Raid 0

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Rowland2004, Jan 22, 2009.

  1. Rowland2004

    Rowland2004 Newbie

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    Just seeing if anyone else has set raid up with one of these laptops. The biggest thing i see is a increase in is Installs :chatterbox: , and when i ran a speed test saw upto 258MB/s burst.

    To make this work i had to order the bracket from the ASUS store that didn't come with screws. Which for $20 you would think it would so was kinda disappointed about that.
    So I had to take 4 screws from the previous hard drive, ( 2 from the bay, and 2 from the ones holding the hard drive in). Then just boot up and hit Crtl-I and setup raid, then install Vista 64.

    No probs with any programs or apps with Asus.
     

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    SauerKraut Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ran raid on my 71V with 2X500s and windows boots up like crap. Almost 4X as long to start up as origional hard drive. What did you set your stripe size for? There isnt anything else I can see that I could have done wrong, as I followed the raid 0 setup step for step.
     
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    Rowland2004 Newbie

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    I set mine to 128k stripe with the Matrix raid, but boot up time is def. faster for mine.
     
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    Delta_CT Notebook Evangelist

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    Interesting...was planning to do the same thing. Any idea how much faster? Also, any idea how much of a hit you take on battery life?
     
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    Yeah, I;m new to raid, but have the same stripe size. It's working, I know that as I have an average of 110MB transfer rate, and a high of 140mb burst rate

    Just wondering why it's soo darn slow.
     
    SauerKraut, Jan 23, 2009
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    (Moving to main ASUS forum.)
     
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  8. Bryanu

    Bryanu Notebook Deity

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    Smaller stripe will not make a the raid faster. It will make the benchmarks look faster but thats it.

    The average size of files on your drive is well over 128k so picking that is best to split it across the drives. If you pick to low of a number it ends up making a lot of overhead and will actually slow you down. Maybe its better on XP but on Vista larger strip is better as the OS file sizes are larger
     
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    Let's see the noob in me understands...too small stripes are bad because it incurs seek time moving to a new stripe? But too big stripes are bad because it will not split the data? So would it be best to figure out the average file size that programs use (not necessarily data unless you are loading big files) and then divide that number by two so it accesses those stripes on both disks at once?
     
    Delta_CT, Jan 25, 2009
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