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    RAID setup worth it?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by grunyon, Feb 16, 2009.

  1. grunyon

    grunyon Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've been doing some reading. I was all ready to fill that second hard drive slot in my P7801u with a second identical hard drive and setup a RAID0. How will it actually benefit me as a gamer, though? I'm thinking it just might not be worth it.

    What will RAID0 do for me? Faster loading times? Faster install/uninstalls? Move files around faster? Faster paging file and game cache?

    Will it be twice as fast, or just a small percentage faster?

    I also read this:


    What do you guys think?
     
    grunyon, Feb 16, 2009
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  2. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    first: get a good automatic backup system to handle it.

    second: it should help in the points you've written, up to 2x as fast.
     
    davepermen, Feb 16, 2009
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  3. HerrKaputt

    HerrKaputt Elite Notebook User

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    If you will setup the RAID through software, the benefits will be little and the risks considerable: the loss of any disk means that you lose all your data.

    I'd rather recommend you install your operating system on one of the disks and use the other for data and page file and games.
     
    HerrKaputt, Feb 16, 2009
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  4. otaku

    otaku Notebook Deity

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    I considered this recently when purchasing my m17 from alienware and decided against it as I always have just seems like more potential hassle and headache. Bad enough I went for crossfire haha
     
    otaku, Feb 16, 2009
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