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    Will 2 of these HD's fit in an XPS M1730?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by tsuzukab, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. tsuzukab

    tsuzukab Notebook Guru

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    ......and how hard would it to be to set them up in Raid 0 if I only get it with 1 hard drive from Dell?

    Will everything I need to attach the hard drive to the laptop already be inside (except the cable of course) And would it be hard to figure out where to plug the cable for the 2nd hard drive?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280

    Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - Retail
     
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    tsuzukab Notebook Guru

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    Thanks :) I actually meant setting up Raid 0 once I got the 2 hard drives if I originally only got 1 from Dell when I ordered it
     
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    Ah, ok, that makes sense. Glad to be of help. :)
     
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    I have wondered this too, I honestly don't know that much about RAID. Would you be able to do RAID 1 instead?
     
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    Yeah you can do Raid 1 or Raid 0. It all depends on what you want.

    Raid 0 is mainly striping data between two drives. Raid 1 is for mirroring. The bad thing about Raid 0 is that if you lose one of the drive, the other drive is probably going to have problems in terms of data recovery. Though I/O will be a lot faster since the data is broken down into pieces plus its easier to implement.

    Raid 1 on the other hand, since it mirrors the data, the loss of one drive won't be as devastating since you can recover the data. But it has a very high amount of disk overhead that occurs. Though the advantage it is has twice the redundancy rate of most disks. It is though more complicated to implement.

    For normal users (if your not in an enterprise system or business) raid 0 is a great choice.
     
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    I just thought maybe if you hadn't originally ordered the RAID configuration that the ability would be lost. RAID 0 sounds nice for performance, but I think I want an M1530 now instead.
     
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    The difference in performance is really rather small and non-existent in some areas. With RAID 0 you get noticeable differences when reading and writing large files (rather large ones). But you must still contend with seek speeds when writing smaller files so the difference in general use is very small. Really I'd only recommend it for some who works a lot with video files or very large uncompressed images. Otherwise your standard two hard drives (JBOD) would likely be better, or RAID 1 assuming the controller inside a XPS 1730 is decent and so the overhead isn't an issue performance wise.
     
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