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    2x750gb for RAID or 1x750gb and BluRay

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by RGSPro, Aug 2, 2012.

  1. RGSPro

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    What would you all do in your NP9150? I have a 256gb mSATA drive as my OS Drive, and the 1.5tb array would be for having a bunch of games installed for my deployment.

    I don't know if I will throw a bluray in very often, and if I need to I can plug it in over USB (The BluRay Drive is currently in an ODD USB Caddy), but I could do a RAID array on the two 750gb drives. Only problem with switching out that drive with a ODD on the fly would be losing the RAID array...
     
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    RAID the two 750GB drives, the BluRay drive is something you are trying to convince yourself you need, although you do NOT :)
     
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    I vote keep your current setting. The 256 mSATA and the 750 HDD.
     
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    Haha, and nothing in the optical bay?
     
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    I'd go mSATA and 2x750GB (non RAID). Then you don't have to carry around a bunch of movies and can instead download or stream them. There really is no need to RAID storage drives unless you had a lot of files you were scared of losing (photos) then you'll want to do RAID 1. You dont need to RAID 0 them with a mSATA drive, you wont see any speed increase and if one of the drives fail you'll lose all your data.
     
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    No I would be doing a Raid 0 Stripe for performance (like when the games on them are loading for example)
     
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    Oh lol, there will almost not be a difference..

    If I were you I would rather get a SSD (and put it in RAID with the mSATA and main SSD) and a 1TB in the Optical then
     
    jaug1337, Aug 3, 2012
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    I notice a big difference in my desktop with 2x7200RPM drives in RAID. The mSATA drive by itself with the OS installed is fast enough. I do find it convenient to have the two 750gb drives together as a 1.5tb drive though as well.
     
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    Oh then it decided, two 750GB drives in RAID 0

    No need for a BluRay drive at all.
     
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    Well I am just curious why you thought that there would be no difference at all? Is there some technical aspect that I am missing?
     
    RGSPro, Aug 3, 2012
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