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    HDD upgrade options

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Renocide, May 30, 2008.

  1. Renocide

    Renocide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, I got my Sager 9262 in the mail a last week or so ago and I ordered with a 100 GB 7200RPM HDD with the idea that I would upgrade later after I needed the space.

    Well, these games I'm playin' are ALOT larger installs that I originally thought.


    I want to throw in another 100 GB drive and run a RAID 0 setup.

    One. Do I needed to know the manufacture of the current HDD drive and order a second one or will any 100 GB HDD work?

    Second. What's the best place to purchase online for this drive?

    Thrid. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit and would I need to wipe out the other drive and then setup the RAID or will Vista do it for me through the OS?
    I know I'm stretching this..but I really hate to re-install after I just got everything setup.

    Thanks!
     
    Renocide, May 30, 2008
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  2. kaltmond

    kaltmond Clepple

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    1. Better the same manufactur. But not must.

    3. I think u must reintall and will lost all ur current data....
     
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  3. jetstar

    jetstar Notebook Deity

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    2. Newegg.com has a large selection of HDDs, and their prices are good too.
     
    jetstar, May 30, 2008
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  4. Renocide

    Renocide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hmmm.

    Sucks that wipe everything out but...

    Ok. So it's a Hitachi drive and it's 100 GB but there are no 100 GB Hitachi drives at Newegg.

    Maybe I should just get 2 NEW LARGER drives and go from there since I got to wipe everything anyway.

    Man this sucks.
     
    Renocide, May 30, 2008
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  5. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but why not get two new drives, RAID just those two, and run them as data drives, keeping your current drive as your OS drive?
     
    Shyster1, May 30, 2008
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  6. kaltmond

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    Or get another 2 to build Raid5, u also get data security, but lost 1/3 capacity.
     
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  7. Renocide

    Renocide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Renocide, May 30, 2008
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  8. Donald@Paladin44

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    Some say the Seagate drives are better than Fujitsu, and they clearly have the better warranty (5 years instead of 3), so it seems it would be a choice between the Fujitsu 120GB and the Seagate 100GB for the same $99.99/
     
    Donald@Paladin44, May 30, 2008
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  9. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    +1 for Seagate.As Eleron suggested keep 2 more for raid and keep the current one as it is saving a lot of problems.
     
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  10. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Who suggested...? :D :D
     
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  11. eleron911

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    :D
    Lol, shame on you Shyster1 for expressing my ideas :D
     
    eleron911, May 30, 2008
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  12. Renocide

    Renocide Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the information guys.

    I actually just got back from Best Buy and ended up getting two 200 GB Hitachi drives.

    LOL

    I go up for Mass Effect and, after thinking about how I have ZERO room for it, I ended up seeing if they have any laptop drives and...the rest is history.

    Anything I should know before I get started? Tips or anything.

    This is the first time I am doing a RAID and doing a HD install on a laptop so I'm a little nervous.
     
    Renocide, May 30, 2008
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  13. Renocide

    Renocide Notebook Enthusiast

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    OK, I got everything up and running again but now everytime I restart it goes through the whole "RAID setup screens".

    Is it going to do this every time or what?

    It's the Intel Matrix screen and the one before that and it even displays the RAID information for a split second before going through with windows startup.
     
    Renocide, May 30, 2008
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  14. Wu Jen

    Wu Jen Some old nobody

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    I'm going to tell you this from personal experience, don't RAID 5 and dual boot. You'll save yourself some OS headaches later on. If you have a DX10 card use vista and if you have a DX9 card use XP. Honestly, I'm thinking of reformating and not worrying about RAID tbh. Load times of games is nothing to worry about. The only time I would RAID 0 was for lots of encoding work for videos. Just a few random thoughts.
     
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  15. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You have to have something to express, first. :D :D :D
     
    Shyster1, May 31, 2008
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  16. lastrebelstanding

    lastrebelstanding Notebook Evangelist

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    Does the 9262 have real hardware raid or a fake raid controller?
    I just don't like the cpu overhead of fake raids.
     
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  17. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Real one (but I`m not 100% positive on this, there are only a few laptops out there with real RAID, The D900K for example for sure):
     
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  18. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    So 9262 has hardware or software raid?
     
    The_Observer, May 31, 2008
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  19. kaltmond

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    I think it´s not a full hardware raid. Depends on only the SB. I really want a NB to have Intel IOP3XX I/O Processors, that would be definitely HW Raid, and should do much stronger, but price.....
     
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  20. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    This should be a good news for Volker.
     
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  21. Wu Jen

    Wu Jen Some old nobody

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    The D901C's RAID is 'fakeraid' . You will still get a performance boost, but no at the same level you would with a real RAID controller.
     
    Wu Jen, May 31, 2008
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  22. lastrebelstanding

    lastrebelstanding Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you absolutely sure on this?
    The thing is, I want to dual-boot Linux and Vista and if it's a "fakeraid" I would have to load drivers for my Linux distro.
    If it's real hardware raid than the raid bios should take care of things for me and the OS's should treat it as a conventional single drive and not require any drivers, am I right?

    Thanks for all your help and answers guys, you're awesome :D
     
    lastrebelstanding, Jun 1, 2008
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  23. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    I think we should let Justin answer this.
     
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  24. eleron911

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    Err, I remember a debate about this.
    It`s fake , my bad. The D900K on the other hand uses real RAID ...
     
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  25. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    The D900 has real one and a supposedly upgrade D901don't have a real raid, disappointing :(
     
    The_Observer, Jun 1, 2008
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