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    VAIO AR21S Memory/hard drive questions

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tricellet, Jun 6, 2007.

  1. tricellet

    tricellet Newbie

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    Hi,

    I've ordered and expect to receive my AR21S on Saturday. Was hoping some current owners could help me out with some information.

    Would it be possible to remove both the hard drives and replace with just 1 single hard drive and run Windows from that? I would of imagined so but all the information I can find suggests it has to run in RAID 0 or 1 and therefore requires 2 drives? I would like to replace the two 5,400 rpm hard drives with a single 7,200 rpm drive.

    What is the CAS Latency of the memory?

    Thanks for any help :)
     
    tricellet, Jun 6, 2007
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  2. ETS

    ETS Notebook Guru

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    Just curious, but why switch to a 7200 rpm drive? RAID 0 is faster.
     
    ETS, Jun 6, 2007
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  3. tricellet

    tricellet Newbie

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    Yeh good point. I've had awful luck with notebook drives failing on me so was concerned that I'd be twice as likely to suffer another fallover with 2 drives instead of 1. Maybe that extra performance will persuade me to overlook the issue.
     
    tricellet, Jun 6, 2007
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    ETS Notebook Guru

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    If you are going to switch to a single drive, keep in mind that going from RAID to a single drive or vice versa requires a re-install of windows. Also,There usaully is a switch on the motherboard that needs to be flipped.
     
    ETS, Jun 6, 2007
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    titan_psp Notebook Enthusiast

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    i don't why you want to change the drive
    but raid0 5400RPM in vista i got 5.6 for hdd
    i think if they are 7200 both would hit 5.9
    but not sure about it
     
    titan_psp, Jun 16, 2007
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    SebHoll Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've completely turned off RAID on my AR21S because I dual-boot Vista with Linux and Linux doesn't like software RAIDs very much (either that or Linux doesn't like me very much :) ). You can activate/deactivate RAID in the BIOS - I didn't need to flick any switches on the motherboard, but I did have to reinstall Windows afterwards (as you probably already know).
     
    SebHoll, Jun 18, 2007
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