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    What drive would be faster for P8631? Buying another 250gb for raid 0 or buying a 320gb drive?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by DRTH_STi, May 4, 2008.

  1. DRTH_STi

    DRTH_STi can't.stop.buying.laptops

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    What would be a faster setup?

    Would buying the second 250gb drive and operating in raid 0 be better than the 320gb drive? The diff between the two is only 14 bucks.

    Any ideas?

    ANybody running both 250gb drives in raid 0? What is your windows experience index score for your hard disk?
     
    DRTH_STi, May 4, 2008
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  2. jehovany8888

    jehovany8888 Notebook Guru

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    can i put a 250 and a 320 gb drives? or need to be the same capacity for both hard drives?
     
    jehovany8888, May 5, 2008
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  3. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    @DRTH_STi, raid 0, if i am not mistaking, is only about 5-10% faster
    @jehovany8888, yes you can do that and the raid 0 would be 250GB from each drive, which means 70GB from 320GB will be waste. and it is highly possible that no extra performance will be gain since they are different models.
     
    Nirvana, May 5, 2008
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