hardware or software raid on 9262?

i know my older d900t has hardware raid and i am remember being able to run full system scans of anti-virus and spyware removal tools at the same time and still have enough "hard drive power" to easily surf the internet without choking. the 9262 appears to be choking and i am thinking it only has software raid and not a dedicated hardware one like the d900t has.

can someone confrim if it's software or hardware based on the d900c?

 

It's close to software RAID. It is FAKERAID, i.e. an imbeded chipset instruction set that acts as a RAID controller, but without the 'true' power of a dedicated RAID controller.

That being said, it is faster than not having a RAID controller at all or going with a Software RAID setup.

 

so it's the same setup as the older d900t/k has?

 

No. The previous generation has real RAID.

 

All onboard motherboard RAID chips are controlled by drivers and CPU, not purely by hardware, hence most people are disappointed with the results of MB RAID5 solutions when aiming for performance.

The D900T and D900K had a near discrete SATA RAID controller (near independent of the CPU and driver).

I do a lot with conversion and such... in RAID-1 and I do not experience much lag when wanting to browse the web or whatever.

 

ugh! well i can tell you the raid 0 performance is non-existant in the d900c! i could not run a spywhere and anti-virus at the same time. 8 hours later and the spywhere is still doing it's full scan.

looks like only raid 1 and raid 5 is worth it on this laptop. i guess all the raid controller failures on the older generations was too alarming for clevo to continue that tradition. how dissapointing. i am going to have to format everything and go with raid 5.

 

RAID-1 saved my butt in this system.

 

hmm, i am going to have to retract my statement. after defragging the hard drives i have adaware doing full system scan, anti-virus doing full system scan, copying 1.7 gigs of data files from memory stick to 4 seperate directories on raid array, i am surfing the net with relative ease. cpu usage at about 20% averaging.

so it appears the with the elimination of the dedicated raid controller clevo undloaded the task onto the cpu but with a quad core it is almost a non-issue.

i think it is imperative to make sure to defrag on a constant basis from my quick experience.

so i will keep my original idea, raid 0 for first two drives and inpependant third drive for manual backing up.

 

nice to know.

I use Diskeeper 2007 lite (free) and TuneUp Utilities 2008.