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    P170HM SSD + 2HDD's

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by xbartekcx, Jan 27, 2013.

  1. xbartekcx

    xbartekcx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey. Im looking to replace my current Seagate Momentus XT in Raid 0 with Samsung 840 SSD and i have a question: can i put one of the drives in dvd drive caddy and have RAID 0 with second seagate? HWinfo is showing me that dvd sata conection is only 1,5 Gb/s. Will it work?
     
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    The optical bay is SATA II but most optical drives run at SATA I speeds as they don't need the extra bandwidth. Yes raiding will be fine, they will both operate in SATA II mode and that's fine for any mechanical drive.
     
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    xbartekcx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, thanks, but one more: if i will put my ssd in main sata slot and switch first hdd to dvd caddy i will not lose any data on my raid 0 configuration?
     
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    No, the controller should recognise the raid set and work as normal. You would only have issues moving to a system with a non-intel (or old intel) raid controller.
     
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    xbartekcx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Perfect, thanks for quick reply :)
     
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    By the way, how have you found the XT in raid 0? I have heard a few problems with them as they were not designed to be run that way.
     
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    I am pretty sure that the newest firmware release has fixed it, several updates were reported across several forums :)
     
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    xbartekcx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hm, never had any problems with them. System was booting same fast as on one XT (i took only one for start, later added second) but games (BF3, Witcher 2) they loaded faster than on one. Do u want any specific data?
     
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    No, I just had heard about them a while ago and wondered what your experience was, thanks for the update.
     
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    I also heard they didnt work good in RAID, glad to hear recent firmware has fixed that.
     
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    I believe it was the .11 firmware version that was experiencing problems. They updated to .12 sometime last year, from what I can recall.

    Momentus XT Firmware Update
     
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