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    Sager NP9260 Questions

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by DigialSleep, Sep 11, 2007.

  1. DigialSleep

    DigialSleep Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a few questions,

    1. if i order one with one drive and later added a second drive, could I use raid 0, I have read a few different things, want to be sure.

    2. if I oder with one video card could i order another at a later time again, just want to be sure.

    3. Dose anyone know if i can get ssd drives to work in raid on this, I see alienware is doing this wondering if this is future upgrade option?


    Thanks
     
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    1) Yes, but you will lose all your data on the the first drive, since creating a new RAID array will be required to be done before the OS can be installed.

    2) yes you can use just one card... many D900C/D901C owners are doing that as well.

    3) SSD drives are still seen as a HDD, so it should be fine.... but putting them in anything but RAID-1 would not do anything to the performance... the technology is still too new... as well as extremely expensive.
     
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  3. DigialSleep

    DigialSleep Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the info.
    I'm thinking of getting one video card, and one 32gb ssd, and a 7200rpm drive.
    any thoughts?
     
    DigialSleep, Sep 11, 2007
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    AstroLad Notebook Enthusiast

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    All depends on what you want to run. CoH works great on my setup as do almost all recent games, but if you're wanting to run games like Crysis at high settings a ~5500 3DMark score won't really cut it. All up to your needs. Also depends what other programs you're running (e.g., Photoshop, etc.).

    If you're just talking Vista + Office and even Photoshop, it will run beautifully.
     
    AstroLad, Sep 11, 2007
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  5. phule103

    phule103 Notebook Consultant

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    As for the SSD, why? It's pretty small and expensive. I think it will be great when the price per gig comes down.
     
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  6. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    SSD are not worth it at the moment, too new... too expensive.

    And the storage space is quite low
     
    Gophn, Sep 11, 2007
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  7. DigialSleep

    DigialSleep Notebook Enthusiast

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    you can get a 32gb ssd, card from new egg for 460.00, and you can fig the entire windows vista on it, with room to spare.
     
    DigialSleep, Sep 11, 2007
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  8. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    sure.. not to game though... since most games are taking up 4-8 gigs each now.

    still not worth it yet... until it gets much cheaper.

    SSD is more ideal for ultraportables that wants less room, less power usage and less heat.
     
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  9. phule103

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    Speaking of SSD and price, 64 GB for 2K? of course that's form Alienware, but still.
     
    phule103, Sep 12, 2007
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