xi 1546 hardrive

ok, heres the thing......im 5/8 full on teh hardrive on my xi 1546. which is an 80GB 2.5" (i think) SATA 5400rpm one. all good. except that i have ANOTHER slot waiting to be filled with another one and i dont know where to find anything (same) or similar. ive searched yes. but still nothing.....need help. thaaank you. another thing.....if im NOT going to lace them up in RAID 0 can i buy a 7200rpm one? my games are suffering with the 5400rpm. or will gettign anotehr 5400 adn lacing two hardrives in RAID 0 be NEAR or AS quick as 7200rpm? lets not mention anyhting goign wrong for the time being. file related that is.. ooooh, can i lace up a 7200rpm adn 5400 to run in raid? on anotehr thought...can i even RUN two drives of diffrent speeds in one notebook? hmm...thanks again in advance.

 

You need two identical hard drives to run a RAID 0 or 1 configuration (RAID 0 is data stripe, RAID 1 is mirrored data). I would suggest against doing a RAID 0 array, it is easy to loose your data that way and it will also bring down your battery life. Not worth it in a notebook. RAID 1 is a great thing, but once again, you're using a notebook.

Yes, you can install any 2.5" SATA notebook hard drive you want in the other slot. However, what you need to make sure of is whether or not you can install a hard drive in there; I know with HP 17", dual hard drive notebooks, that if you don't buy two hard drives with the notebook, they leave out the mounting brackets necessary for the second one and you must buy them. So, open up the laptop and see what it looks like inside.

Where do you live?

Keep in mind that with games, the only thing the hard drive affects is the loading times. If you are having trouble getting stable framerates, then change your video settings. Also, if your hard drive light is on all the time while playing games, then that is an indication that you are out of RAM. What are the full specifications of your notebook?

 

hmm...well, right now i wouldnt ind RAID 0, since iam goign to revamp te whole notebook with a fresh install soon. at any rate, i keep my most important files elsewhere. as for battery life. well, the xi 1546 isnt exactly what you would call...portable. and since i dont even USE the battery (its on the shelf above me!) im not particularly worried. at any rate. im not that obsessed about it.

as for extra space. thats no worry, its the XI 1546, so im pretty sure you know that it has space for two hardrives. well,one is occupied by an 80Gb on as stated. teh other should eb empty. get this aswell, on start up the notebook even GIVES you the option to change to RAID! its built in! so from that...it kinda defines that it has the space for another. anyway. ill open it up jsut to make sure and ill see whats up.

aaaand right now..im residing in the U.K!

ok, as for games. as youve probably noticed. i run heavy gaming. but since the notebook is new, i wont go crazy upgrading it. as for frame rates. its more then stabel the notebook has the ATI M x1800. so no issues there. as for RAM. it runs on 1024gb. so no issues either. ive tested and ran ususally dont suffer bad. as for full specs. heres teh info. http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/Resources/110/705477887.pdf

its teh fujitsu siemens XI1546. its the t2400 that ive got.

one last thing chaz. what do you think if i ran saaay, one 5400rpm (call it C: ). and one 7200rpm (call it D: ). not in RAID but as two singular drives. say i run vital system info and important data of of the C. and games and data i know wont stay long on the D? since im not going to access and change things on the C that often, will it be more reliable and less prone to things going wrong? how would that sound?


thanks again.

 

That sounds like a good idea. By putting Windows on a separate partition than most of your data/programs, that means that if you ever have to reformat, that you won't have to reload all of your programs because they will be on the other hard drive. Now as far as reliability goes - well, the reliability will be the similar for both drives, but it is highly unlikely that both drives will fail (if they do) at the same time, so having two hard drives is pretty safe.

 

I got the impression that programs whether on the windows drive or not had to be re-installed in a situation such as this to create the proper registry entries?

 

thanks chaz...i think ill do that....keeps me happy either way! thyre not too expensive either...quite surprised!

hows this?
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...154,42240000,47250000,4294960493&v=2#infoarea


registry entries dont get deleted in most cases though do they?

 

Yes, that hard disk is fine. If you look around on the Internet, you may be able to find that hard disk a little cheaper. Bear in mind, you will certainly need a second hard disk kit, to install in the notebook. Otherwise, as mentioned before, there won't be any way to mount the new hard disk. You should be able to purchase one of these kits from Fujitsu Siemens. They have a repair centre in Warrington, where you may be able to purchase one. The kit for the Xi 1546. Xi 1526, M3438G and M4438G are all the same, so if you come across one on the Internet that states one of the other notebooks that I have mentioned, it should work.

 

Yeah, I'm not certain on that, but at least your saved game data will remain, and "re-installing" will take less time because the files are already there.

That's an excellent hard drive, I use one in my notebook. You can see a review here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2840

 

meh, proving hard to find.....im...umm.. BIT far from warrington...so is there any way i can get hold of them..ill look it up on google..but on ebay...zip! nothing! any ideas? thanks.

 

I have linked a page below that you find useful. They have limited parts, as described on the page, but they may be able to help you where to find these parts. You may also be able to find some spare parts for the models, M3438G and M4438G. They have the same bracket as the Xi 1546.

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/support/spares.html

The people may be able to ship the second hard disk kit to you, if they have it. However, this will probably be expensive, as will the kit for the second hard disk itself.