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    W530 Raid

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by hormel, Jun 20, 2012.

  1. hormel

    hormel Newbie

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    I was customizing a w530 and was interested in the RAID option. You can configure it for RAID by going to the "Storage Subsystem" option. Within this tab, there are two choices: Internal RAID-not enabled and Internal RAID-configured by lenovo.

    From what I can tell, if RAID is selected, then they take away the optical drive and charge you $40 for a bay adapter. And of course they charge you for the additional hard drive.

    All this taken into account, I don't think I'll have lenovo configure my laptop for RAID. Instead I'll buy the bay adapter and identical hard drive off ebay/amazon, configure RAID myself, and get to keep my optical drive. The only concern I have is this: in the the user manual it shows two w530 models (pg 112 of the pdf, pg 94 of the user guide), a RAID model and a non-RAID model. This makes me wonder if lenovo permanently disables the RAID option in the BIOS if they themselves don't configure it.

    Anyone have any information on this?
     
    hormel, Jun 20, 2012
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You won't be able to raid it yourself if you do not select it since it uses a different motherboard.

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    sgogeta4, Jun 20, 2012
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    hormel Newbie

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    Oh really? Do you think it is possible to have lenovo give me the RAID motherboard, but not configure RAID? I wouldn't want to configure RAID myself for a while, so I'd like to have the dvd optical drive until then.

    I talked to both sales and technical support about this. Sales didn't have an answer at all. Tech support gave a half assured answer that I could enable RAID myself.

    Do you have some sources for this information you gave me? I'd like to see them.

    Thanks for the help
     
    hormel, Jun 20, 2012
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