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    RAID questions

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by BlueMak, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. BlueMak

    BlueMak Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone knows if the RAID solutions in the 9262 (or any name you want to use for it), are worth it if used for performance gain, like for video editing etc. I am not talking about gaming, I am sure a single 7200 drive will be enough for that.
    So, if say "I" get 3 HDDs, the first all the programs/games and the other two in raid 0 I think it is called, for all the video editing (my guess install the editing program in the non RAID drive and use the RAID 0 drives as a workpad. Will this see any real gain, is it worth it? Or the improvement is too small to matter, at least for laptops' drives.

    Also, from what I understand if "I" get 2 500GB drives as second and third drive, in RAID 0, then I will have 1000GB available, not 500, right?
     
    BlueMak, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. baconcow

    baconcow Notebook Consultant

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    Two 500's in Raid 0 = 1000 GB.

    Two 500's in Raid 1 = 500 GB (with redundancy)
     
    baconcow, Aug 3, 2008
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  3. Soloman

    Soloman Notebook Consultant

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    One HD could handle it, but it drags the system.

    If you have an array box with 2 or more HD's set to either Raid 2 or 5 that would work even better. But 0 Raid will also work but be careful because if one HD goes down, your whole project does as well. I know there are white papers (Adobe) which claim that raid 0 will work (which it does) and there are the tried and proven papers where raid 2 or 5 is suggested. You take your choice. Either way they will work much better than one single drive no matter what the speed.

    Yes and load media onto a seperate HD. Use your 0 raid set up for the work. One important thing make sure all your drives are conected via controler or esata because firewire or usb doesnt cut it when mastering.

    So if you are getting the 9262 you have 3 hds 2 on whatever raid setup and one as storage.
     
    Soloman, Aug 3, 2008
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