im playing on geting a laptop from alien ware and idk what kinda harddrive to get just a single hard drive or a raid 0 or raid 1...i dont know much about raid so plz help and thx
2007-05-30 11:59:32 · 5 answers · asked by Carl M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Raid 1 is for security, don't bother with that. Raid 0 increases speed but you need two identical hard drives. Gaming performance is uneffected by the hard drive, only the initial load up times and save times will be faster. Also, I don't believe you can use raid arrays on laptops. If you can, it's the type of laptop that might as well be a desktop, that gets 10 minutes of battery power.
2007-05-30 12:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by William E. Roberts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a single hard drive to keep it simple.
RAID 0 is not always twice as fast as the transfers do not always occur simultaneously! Depending upon the necessary seek and rotational delay, there could be minimal improvement in performance. As stated, there is no recovery option in the event that one disk fails. That is the reason that RAID 5 is offered for systems with at least three disks: N-1 for data and one for parity which allows reconstruction of the data in the event of a failure.
RAID 0, also referred to striping, is of benefit to performance only with large transfers to/from the disk, i.e. several megabytes in a single operation.
Once you establish a RAID set, you cannot undo; you'll be bound to those disks. A change would require backup of the data to an external media and most likely, rebuilding the system.
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2007-05-30 13:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by Alan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
250GB hard drive will hold plenty of games... just make sure the CPU and Graphics card is strong enough to play the games you want to play. Also choose your Operating System carefully. If you get Win7 Home Premium you will be limited on some of the older games that want to run on XP. If you bet Win7 Ultimate you can use the XP mode. XP by itself is becoming a little long in the tooth and newer games are going to run better under Win7.
2016-04-01 05:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please use Google for a question like this but in this case I'll help you. RAID 0 is twice as fast as one hard drive and twice the capacity but you will risk losing data as in effect it gives you twice the likelihood that your hard drive will break. RAID 1 is the same speed and storage capacity as one hard drive but will give you half the likelihood of data loss. I recommend a single hard drive for a laptop as RAID 0 will give you too much risk of data loss as laptop hard drives are already fairly delicate.
2007-05-30 12:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you most likely are not able to set up a RAID configuration on your laptop unless it originally came with it.
For now, on a price vs performance basis, you are going to want to go with the 7200 rpm hard drives that have come out recently.
But don't worry, hard drive speed does not have that much effect on a systems gaming ability. Though it is helpful to have a faster hard drive.
2007-05-30 12:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋