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post #21 of 32
2/25/08 at 2:17pm
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Yea I ordered the 2x 320's and 4GB OCZ RAM got it all for 453 or so shipped 2 day fedex so now I can stop deleting one game to install another.
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post #22 of 32
2/26/08 at 5:26pm
Just for comparison purposes - 2x Hitachi 7k200 200gb 7,200 rpm (RAID 0)

Bare (i.e. no OEM bloatware) Vista 32bit install - Set to High Performance.

Click me.
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post #23 of 32
2/26/08 at 5:49pm
Is that a manufacturer RAID0 in the gateway?

(link doesnt work for me)
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post #24 of 32
2/27/08 at 12:09am
Sorry about that - forgot the extension.

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post #25 of 32
2/27/08 at 5:04am
OK, got my drive - it performs great, love the extra space

Question: do I have to update the driver?

In HD tune 2.55 it says drive supports UDMA Mode 6 (ultra ATA/133) but what is active is mode 5 (ultra ATA/100)

*I have already toggled on both write caching and advanced perfromance under disk drives in device manager (vista64) and windows pulls the mode 5 driver for the "ide channel" for that disk

thanks, Ill bench it tomorrow
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post #26 of 32
2/27/08 at 10:47am
I got a bunch of 200GB 7200RPM SATA drives from Dell.com the other day (the ones with a free-fall sensor) for $109 each. Couldn't beat that price!

Now, the item number is dead, so who knows...
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post #27 of 32
2/28/08 at 11:23am

HDtune WD320gb

Up from a~35GB/s with the momentus 100gb 7200rpm to ~50GB/s

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post #28 of 32
2/28/08 at 12:30pm
in about a month hitachi will have a 500 GB drive that is standard 2.5-inch dimensions you can put into your laptop. Might be a little pricey though
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post #29 of 32
2/28/08 at 2:33pm
and the Atto benchmark of my C: drive on that 320GB drive


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post #30 of 32
2/28/08 at 3:01pm
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my 2 320GB drives came today but I'm stuck at work when I get home I'm going to setup a raid on the drives and reinstall everything, question though I have a backup of my system that I used acronis after setting up the array will I be able to restore from those disc's i created to the array and will it do any thing crazy like limit the amount of space to the original 120gb that was on the original drive when I backed it up?
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post #31 of 32
2/28/08 at 3:23pm
Someone with an 1730 and raid post, but for diefool's workaround on a non factory raid system, I think this is what you do:

As far as to a single disk, it'll restore to the backed up partition size and leave blank space thereafter, which you can then resize the partition into using disk director if you wanted or if your doing the raido thing (by the look of it, ive not had time to do it yet) you'd leave OS on one conventional disk and dynamic image a same size partition on both the other disks
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post #32 of 32
2/28/08 at 6:36pm
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I know that normally thats what would happen I was just worried about the raid havent ever done a restore to a raid i miight just say the heck with it and reinstall from scratch. No biggy I was just wondering.
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