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    Internal hard drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by who8mahrice, Jun 18, 2006.

  1. who8mahrice

    who8mahrice Notebook Evangelist

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    Can someone explain to me what RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 2 (if there is one), and Serial ATA mean please?

    I'm a noob for the most part when it comes to hardware.
     
    who8mahrice, Jun 18, 2006
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Not much of this should matter in a notebook. RAID refers to different types of data redundancy on multiple drives, more or less. And SATA is a type of drive connection. Perhaps if you provide more context we could help you better.
     
    Brian, Jun 18, 2006
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  3. Iter

    Iter Notebook Evangelist

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    Laptop size is very small and doesn't expect to put 2 or more HD inside. RAID function is only used in desktop for workstation and server which are required to support fault tolerance such as mirror(RAID 1) and a OS, data backup(RAID 0+1 and 5 and up) and so on. RAID is not mainly for laptop, we will not discuss much about this.
     
    Iter, Jun 18, 2006
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  4. who8mahrice

    who8mahrice Notebook Evangelist

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    Haha ok thanks. I'll just ignore it then, I'm not planning on buying some massive 4k notebook that has two drives.
     
    who8mahrice, Jun 19, 2006
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  5. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Iter, that's not actually true. There are a few notebooks that support two drives and various RAID configs.
     
    Brian, Jun 19, 2006
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    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Yeah. Just check the chapter 'huge desktop replacements' ;)
     
    Ice-Tea, Jun 19, 2006
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  7. Iter

    Iter Notebook Evangelist

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    oh! yeah, Brian, thanks to mention me about this. he he~~
     
    Iter, Jun 19, 2006
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