Expert Day!!! Starts April 26, 2011

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Do you have questions setting up or using your printer, notebook or desktop PC?

We have answers.

Experts will be on the printer and all in ones, notebook, and desktop boards ready to answer your questions from Tuesday, April 26th 9:00am to Wednesday, April 27th 9:00am Pacific Daylight Time.

How the day works:

Come to the Forum and post your questions. More than 100 experts will be on the Forums and will do their best to answer your questions. They may need to get some more information from you so please check the box "email me when someone replies." An online conversation will be born!

Why should you come to the Forums?

Whether you own a Photosmart printer, HP Envy notebook or an HP home desktop computer, there has never been a better chance to learn about your product.

When do you have a chance to talk directly with the people who designed the product or wrote the manual for it?

This will be your chance to connect with the best and brightest minds at HP for free.

We’ll share our knowledge on the best ways to:

•Troubleshoot the issue you are having;
•Set up a Wireless network;
•Tweak your product to increase performance;
•Safeguard your PC from viruses and spyware;
•Choose the right video card, power supply, or add the right amount of memory;
•Use the tools built into your product that can make it run better and fix common problem;
•Also, get your questions answered about all new Internet Explorer 9, tips, and compatibility.

And it’s FREE.

Doesn’t matter how old the product is or what it is connected to. We will do our best to help.

The event will also be occurring on the Enterprise Business Forum (April 26th from 9:00am to April 27th 9:00am PDT) and Simplified Chinese Forum (April 28th - China Standard Time).

Sounds interesting. So, the guys who designed our Envy's will be there, hmmmm Maybe I'll join and ask the "Experts" who's idea was it to RAID 0 the SSD/HDD combo drive!

KJ

 

LMFAO
KJ, you crack me up

 

haha x2 gotta love KJ

 

..wait..ho-how the hell do you even raid 0 a ssd and hdd?


also, anyone wanna ask 'em why they're blocking the rear fan on the envy 14 with the screen? (sure the air goes up instead and there's always the right fan, but still)

 

its possible if you have the same amount of storage on each. not recommended tough, since the raid is the 0.

Raid 0 is a malaise to the world, raid 5 is what should be used, if you want performance buy an ssd and get a caddy or buy one that holds more drives (as per envy 17)

seeing this was done by hp, I recommend to get someone fired quickly

 

slotti and spencerp, thanks, I try.

Mr. MM, check this link out I posted in the Envy 17/3D SB thread. I learned something about RAIDing, and yes, it is possible to RAID 0 drives of different sizes, which HP apprantely did for whatever reason....

Standard RAID levels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On a side note, kinda wish this expert day was happening sooner as some members in the Envy 17 3D SB thread are reporting issues of freezing/possible wifi connection problems. Hope we find the answers soon and sort this mess out.

KJ

 

Also I wonder who was the genius to put only 1 fan on the Envy 17's previous generation.

 

LOL! Crimsoned, are you gonna make the poor Envy designers squirm in shame!?


KJ

 

I wouldn't say that. I love RAID0 and the performance benefits it brings. Granted, like everything else though, it has its place and time depending on the person's needs.

RAID5 is useless in a laptop; hell, I think it sucks for home use and has a write penalty. Now RAID10 is what I'd prefer... but no home use scenarios should require that type of redundancy and performance.

 

I still vouch for raid 5, and asynchronous raid 0 is a terrible idea no way you put

 

If I had the time I certainly would not mind trolling them.

 

I would definitely ask them how they get feedback on their products, and whether they read NBR forums.

Do they know about issues like the trackpad workaround for smooth scrolling?
Do they know that we'd like have the option to be able to control the fans a bit more? Advanced BIOS doesn't seem to do anything.
Do they know that the switchable graphics drivers seem to add about 14 seconds to the boot time(!)?