The 9750 and RAID

I'm interested in possibly getting the Sager 9750, perhaps with RAID 0 (I'm thinking 2 100GB 7200rpm drives or 2 80GB 7200rpm drives). Does anybody else here have RAID in their 9750, or some other notebook? Any issues with it? (I'm guessing battery life is probably shorter, and perhaps more heat). Did you notice a huge performance increase with RAID 0?

 

I'm running RAID 1 (mirror) with 2x 120gb Seagate's SATA, runs fine, no lag during game startups either.

No issues, just remember to use SATA drivers if you are installing Windows yourself.

-Gophn

 

RAID 0 will increase your read speed by about 70% and your write speed by about 30%. If you are using 2 80GB drives your C: will show 160GB, and 2 100GB drives will show C: as 200GB.

Be sure to backup regularly because if either hard drive fails you will lose all of your data. Otherwise it operates smoothly. Battery life and heat are only marginally affected.

 

You will notice the largest increase in your read speads on a RAID 0. You will notice the performance gains with striping. If you loose a drive you will loose all data, or just the same if you have one drive and it fails.

 

I want Redundancy, not care for nominal speed increase in write speed. Thanks for the suggestion. I have my company's data in this notebook, I will not want to lose it due to wanting more speed.

Thats why I chose this notebook over the others, data redundancy.

-Gophn

 

We understand...but Jason Spaceman started this thread asking about the performance differences using RAID 0

 

(back handed by paladin)

My bad.... well RAID 0 is always a performance increase, regardless if its a notebook or desktop, but the 7200rpm notebook harddrives would be recommended to really see a significant performance difference.

-Gophn

 

Oops! Sorry

Absolutely. Since we are striving to squeeze the best performance out of the hard drives, the 7,200RPM drives are the only way to go.

 

7200RPM drives are well worth the money.

RAID 0 is an exclusive feature on notebooks, the D900K is one of a handful to be capable of having it. You must have two of the exact same drives to run it, and as Donald and Justin said, it will double your storage. By combining the drives, you can essentially double the RPM and say that's how fast your drive is - two 7200RPM drives = 14400RPM. It's more like a ~70-75% performance as said, but given that the hard drive is by far the slowest component in the computer, any gain in speed will be noticable.