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    Secondary Hard Disk (G50Vt)

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Mortinator, Nov 12, 2008.

  1. Mortinator

    Mortinator Notebook Consultant

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    So, what do you guys usually put on your secondary hard disk? I was just wondering :)
     
    Mortinator, Nov 12, 2008
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  2. Gollan

    Gollan Notebook Enthusiast

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    On my G50V I've moved my "Documents" folder there. Eventually I will also move my Music and Pictures folders there too.

    To simplify things from the factory default, I removed the second logical partion from the primary hard drive, so it is one big "C:" drive for Vista. This freed up drive letter "D:" for the secondary drive. I left the recovery partion on the primary drive, but it doesn't show up in the drive letter sequence.

    I will say that in the process of doing this I learned something VERY important about Vista. Don't delete any of the special folders such as "Documents" because there is no easy to get them back. ;)
     
    Gollan, Nov 12, 2008
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  3. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    I had my 2 hard drives set in RAID-0 :)
     
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  4. Enlefo

    Enlefo Newbie

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    RAID0 in a laptop is kinda asking for trouble IMO, if you don't care about the data on the machine though the speed is nice. I have my g50v using RAID1 because it's going to be my primary machine shortly. Either way RAID FTW.
     
    Enlefo, Nov 13, 2008
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  5. David

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    Well, it's not that I don't care about my data, but the advantages clearly out weigh the disadvantages for me since hard drives are the main bottleneck in most modern laptops. I personally would backup my data on a regular basis instead of using a RAID1 config since the effective storage capacity is cut in half.
     
    David, Nov 13, 2008
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    Qwakrz Notebook Consultant

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    I have ripped DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray images so that I dont need to carry the discs to and from work, mind you I have also fitted a 500GB drive as the 2nd drive
     
    Qwakrz, Nov 13, 2008
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    To emporiumboutique:

    It depends on what you're using the laptop for. If utilizing a lot of i/o to HDD (i.e. copying/loading files), the increased read/write is fairly noticeable. If gaming, you'll find that after the game is loaded into memory, it barely utilizes the HDD anymore.

    The only beneficial case I can think of is if there's a lot of loading segments in the game. Other than that, the majority of the gaming enjoyment is not dependent on RAID-0.
     
    tshong, Nov 14, 2008
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  8. rapion125

    rapion125 Notebook Evangelist

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    RAID-0 isn't very bad. I'd sacrifice security for performance because I use an external hard drive to back up all my stuff. RAID-0's increase in performance is noticeable. Installing things take less time. Game loading times are also faster. If you do Photoshop, there's less delay while opening a new image.
     
    rapion125, Nov 14, 2008
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