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    RAID 5 on NP9262? Anyone running it?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by dvfedele, Dec 4, 2008.

  1. dvfedele

    dvfedele Notebook Guru

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    Hey everyone...thinking of running RAID 5 on an NP9262 (was going to use 3 sataII 250gb drives with 16mb cache). Anyone using it? How is the cpu peformance hit for the parity writing/reading? Thanks!
     
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  2. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    I was using raid 5 but after multiple re-formats and countless "initializing volume status" (or something like that) each time the computer booted I gave up and switched to raid 0 with no problems

    doesn't answer your question but might give you insight
     
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    Aryantes Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    I used it for a little while, didn't notice any performance drops. I was running no RAID for a little while before that.

    However, I switched to RAID-0 for the write speed for installation/extraction of apps and running 3dsmax / autocad.

    I have (3) 200gb 7200rpm drives.
     
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  4. Neil@Kobalt

    Neil@Kobalt Company Representative

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    RAID 5 does slow the laptop down, not by much but side by side with a system with a single drive there is a noticeable difference. If the data security is important to you or you use it as a server etc go for it, if you want better performance than a single drive you won't get it unles on RAID 0 or 1.

    THB if you want the data security you would be better off with 2 x 320 RAID 1 and then a third 320 - same total storage as 3 x 320 RAID 5 but doesn't affect system performance as much.
     
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    dvfedele Notebook Guru

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    ok Neil thanks a lot...sounds like thats the best way to go. 2 drives raid 0 plus a third drive as backup :) thanks again!
     
    dvfedele, Dec 6, 2008
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