Any G50V owners out there? ... The G50V is capable of RAID-0 and RAID-1. You need 2 hard drives for either mode. RAID-0 writes the info in stripes across th ...

rincewind · 09-05-2008, 08:09 AM

Please make a review of this new baby!

Djembe · 09-05-2008, 08:58 AM

I think DewrGleision has one

Ramyon · 09-07-2008, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rincewind

Please make a review of this new baby!

heres one sounds good. Also check out bestbuy lots of reviews on this machine very very popular.....

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=282100

cy246 · 09-08-2008, 02:00 AM

i just got mine a couple days ago and i am loving it!!!

intchill · 11-24-2008, 07:42 AM

It comes off well in a recent review here:

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h1745.htm

Evanm · 11-27-2008, 06:32 PM

what is "RAID" mode and why does he tell you to change it?

linuxguy · 11-30-2008, 12:55 PM

The G50V is capable of RAID-0 and RAID-1. You need 2 hard drives for either mode.

RAID-0 writes the info in stripes across the disks - for instance if your stripe size is set to 128k and you're copying a file that's 256k to the drives the first 128k is written to the first drive and the next 128k is written to the second drive. This makes sequential read speeds almost double that of a single drive. The drawback is that you need to keep good backups because if either one of your drives starts to develop problems the RAID-0 array is toast. You'll need to rebuild the array after replacing the bad drive and restore everything.

RAID-1 writes the data at the exact same place on both drives. It literally mirrors the drives. This is good for data security. If your first drive starts dying you can continue running on the second drive with no data loss until you replace the bad drive. There is no performance gain in RAID-1.

09-05-2008, 08:09 AM	#1
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09-05-2008, 08:58 AM	#2
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11-30-2008, 12:55 PM	#7
linuxguy Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: what location? Posts: 186 Credits: 1,383	The G50V is capable of RAID-0 and RAID-1. You need 2 hard drives for either mode. RAID-0 writes the info in stripes across the disks - for instance if your stripe size is set to 128k and you're copying a file that's 256k to the drives the first 128k is written to the first drive and the next 128k is written to the second drive. This makes sequential read speeds almost double that of a single drive. The drawback is that you need to keep good backups because if either one of your drives starts to develop problems the RAID-0 array is toast. You'll need to rebuild the array after replacing the bad drive and restore everything. RAID-1 writes the data at the exact same place on both drives. It literally mirrors the drives. This is good for data security. If your first drive starts dying you can continue running on the second drive with no data loss until you replace the bad drive. There is no performance gain in RAID-1. __________________ Asus G51VX-A1: QX9300\|8GB\|1TB 7200 RAID-0\|WUXGA+\|nVidia GTX 260M 1GB \|OpenSuSE 11.1 64\|Vista 64 ASUS G50VT-A1: 2.53Ghz\|8 GB\|1TB 7200 RPM RAID-0\|WSXGA+\|nVidia 9800M GS 512MB\|Vista 64 AlienWare m15x : 2.5Ghz\|4GB\|Dual internal 250GB 7200's\|1920x1200\|nVidia 8800M GTX 512MB\|SuSE Linux 10.3\|XP Pro \| Vista 2 AlienWare m5550's : 2.0 Ghz\|2GB\|160GB 7200\|1920x1200\|nVidia 7600 256MB\|XP Pro

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09-08-2008, 02:00 AM	#4
cy246 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3 Credits: 231	i just got mine a couple days ago and i am loving it!!!

11-24-2008, 07:42 AM	#5
intchill Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 24 Credits: -323	It comes off well in a recent review here: http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h1745.htm

11-27-2008, 06:32 PM	#6
Evanm Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 25 Credits: -327	what is "RAID" mode and why does he tell you to change it?