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    Raid question.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Infoseeker, Jul 17, 2008.

  1. Infoseeker

    Infoseeker Notebook Evangelist

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    If I setup a Raid-0 with my lappy's internal drive and a e-sata one; does that mean I'm required to carry around that external drive for whenever I use my laptop?


    Also which Raid-type is optimal for gaming.


    Edit: err....no 320gig 5k rpm esata drives out there. An enclosure maybe? I guess this way I can get a slim more portable enclosure.
     
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  2. sirmetman

    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    Um, if you can even RAID with an external drive and an internal driver together, yes, you will most definitely need the second drive to even run your computer. RAID0 means your data is split half and half across the 2 drives. If you don't have the second drive, half your data isn't even there. And I don't mean half your files, I mean half of each file, at a low level.
     
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  3. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Wow can't be done. And yes if could what sirmetman said. You are looking in the wrong places. Do you really feel your HDD is holding your gaming back? I doubt.
     
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    You cant setup a raid 0 array between an internal laptop drive and an external drive. raid 0 really only works well when you have two of the same drives, connected to the same hub. Using an external means going though a esata/hub, and that is not the same as the onboard sata controller. Plus even if you could get it to work, which I am 100% ure you cant, you would have to carry around an external drive.
    To my knowledge, the p-6860fx has two harddrive bays, so why dont you use two internal harddrives?

    K-TRON
     
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  5. Infoseeker

    Infoseeker Notebook Evangelist

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    Did it? Maybe I should check on that and see if I can fix another drive internally.
     
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  6. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I think it did, I hope I am not confusing the one you have with the other gateway fx laptop.

    K-TRON
     
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