How to get RAID 0 working in M1710 and E1705 Instructions. - Page 2

If you have an SATA 2nd bay enclosure could you give me the specs i can only seem to find pata's thanks

i benched last night i can only bench a 3GB on the end of the 4200 rpm drive but its deffinetly not a happy drive i did find a corroded contact on my bay cleaned it but didnt seem to make a difference, also has dome trouble with the 2nd hdd reverting to pio mode.

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Ware did you download your version of atto mine dosnt offer the same options as yuors.

The disk management isnt a bad tool it does what it does shame it dosnt offer partitioning afaics had to use partition magic. Thing that worries me is letting windows XP handle my disks in a more complicated way i mean its micosoft i am betting its going to destroy my file system with some error 6 months down the line but still thats why i have ACRONIS

in the pic one benchs from 64k and others 4mb i will correct that later also speeds are just wrong 120MBS ! should be more like 40MB/s.

its a nice performance tweak either way and i asked it be added to the sticky on the 1705 and 1710 at the top os this forum.

Kinda confused here, but if you are saying that you wish to find a SATA caddy (secondary) then you just search ebay for "Dell SATA caddy." You can get them for $35 or a bit cheaper if you know ppl.

StickY???

Mods, I vote for this thread to be a sticky

Diefool did some great original work here, and many people would love to have a RAID configuration on an 17" laptop

The posted drive speeds are phenomenal

i cant find a new version have you got a link ? Sisoftware seems to do the file system bench quite well i dont think there is any issue with the disk i think its just and old version of atto :P

http://kb.ciprico.com/lore/article.php?id=268

thats v2.34

Thanks and for that i give you this

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nice finally atto agree's with what i experienced, though that one of the 80GB drive its testing the last 3 GB so you need to roughly double that for the beginning 30% or so, the issues i experienced while trying this were coincidental.

Its an excellent find thanks again DieFool.

i am quite surprised at how little attention this mod has got it to me is only second best mod to the clockable bios for gpu, still i am spreading the word of the Ori beleave or DieFool

Anyone got this working in Vista yet? Regedit is different.

I've got an 320gb on the way, gonna have XPpro partition with V64 and then Raid0 100gb on that main drive and 100gb on the 2nd internal drive

I like Vista64 and would love to get this working on Vista, but its probably beyond me. I'll have a bash

(don't want to have it with XP as thats just for work apps)

*I'm going to spread the word outside of here too. Big thanks Diefool

OK guys - my SATA caddy can't be two far away, have two HDD's ready to go and Vista ultimate so will be interesting to have a play with this I agree sticky!!!

those 320GB's look awsome personally i like the western digital one it has a higher max op temp which to me says laptop and accuracy well it does after reading toms hardware guide ware they said that lmao but i'd have thought that from the facts any way :P.

A nice couple of firewire disks might be a docking raid setup too add in some slow ass usb 2.0 disks on a powered hub this weekend i am adding in a load of redundant disks into my pc if not striped just spanning

thanks again DieFool keep up the good work and find me another tweak quick i amhanging out after that last hit

XP though 8 processses 35Mb + 200Mb cache so good for benching and scary gaming no firewall or avg but still running ym wifi lol.

http://itsvista.com/2007/02/dynamic-...bastard-child/

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1150871

might be helpful article for the vistarers

Advice

Hi everyone,

I have had my Inspiron 9400/E1705 for what seems like decades now and I have to say it has been amazing how long it has lasted and how comparative it still is to the best laptops out there still.

Last year after checking out some of the hacks you lot had done, I decided to upgrade the Graphics to a fx2500 (which 2 months later went kaput!), got 4gigs of ram and a T7600 CPU. It is a bit of a bummer the graphics card returned back to the cruddy ATI x1400, I can't afford to get another graphics card!

Ok, I also have a 250GB 7200rpm HDD but I need more space and I would love to have a dual HDD setup. So I got a couple of questions if you can help please - I am not technically minded, whatever I do to my laptop I follow your HOWTO's to the dot! :-)

1. Ebay - you can buy non-original parts for SATA Caddies for like 40 dollars (£20). Are they as good as original dell parts?

2. The CD rom connection port for the caddie, is that as fast as the normal HDD connection? Or is that limited like the USB ports for external HDDs?

3. I saw this new Run Core Pro IV SSD drive which is amaazingly fast see this link:
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/0...-fast-ssd.html
And I was wondering could I use the same method to make this the primary drive and my 250GB the secondary one?

4. If I can use the Run core SSD - is there a minimum size I should opt for the primary drive? The 32Gb version is $150 and the 64GB is $250 and above that and we are going into non-affordable territory for me. Plus, what would be best Raid configuration if at all with these different drives (I know jack all about Raid)?

Thanks in advance guys!

1. Pretty sure Dell doesn't have an OEM caddy for our laptops.

2. The CDROM connection is SATA too and is just as fast as the on that the primary hard drive is plugged into.

3. SSD hard drives are nice, but still limited in size. IMHO, not worth the money; yet.

4. If you're limited on space, then you'd want to get the biggest one you can find, I don't think spending $250 on a 64GB hard drive would be a wise choice for you. Seeing as how you've filled up a 250GB drive, I'd probably get a 320GB hard drive and do the same thing DieFool did, setup 70GB as a main partition, install Windows XP on it, then RAID the remaining space and other hard drive for more space.

Hmmm

Ok, I actually have enough space left. So I really just want my OS booting off the super duper fast SSD and leave my old drive to store the bulk of my stuff.

So can it be done then? Is the process the same?
Should I get the 32GB or 64GB? (Is 32GB enough Windows and other program installs?)
And will raid work between the two drives, and what raid config is best?

Thanks

Personally I'd get another 7200RPM drive and set them up in a RAID configuration. The added speed of finding data on a hard drive to me, just isn't worth it as I believe that's one of the only main strong points with SSD, the seek times are extremely quick. Aside from the fact that they have no moving parts, so if you drop it they'll still work.

I think two 7200RPM drives in a RAID configuration would be on par with SSD and provide more than 3 times the space for far less. 400+GB vs 128GB

Though this is all only speculation and hear say on my part, I have not done any research regarding SSD drives aside from when I first heard about them, to see what they were and what SSD stood for.

RAID with SSD primary

Did you check the link I put in my first post?
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/0...-fast-ssd.html

If that ain't an example of an SSD trumping any drive I have ever seen, I don't know what is! Plus note that was on a low power processor, an Intel Atom and due to the board limitations etc it was only going at half speed too!

So would the process be the same, is it even possible?
Thanks.