2 ssd raid 0

[Kavvy]

Good morning all,

I am looking at the laptop at the link below, but can't figure out what it means by 2 SSD Raid0, does it have a solid state drive? Under features, it has listed 500gb of storage, which would be way to much for a SSD so I am confused!

http://www.visions.ca/Catalogue/Cate...ku=MSGT60002US

The other laptop i may get is

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35818

Thanks for any comments

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Kavy

Good morning all,

I am looking at the laptop at the link below, but can't figure out what it means by 2 SSD Raid0, does it have a solid state drive? Under features, it has listed 500gb of storage, which would be way to much for a SSD so I am confused!

http://www.visions.ca/Catalogue/Cate...ku=MSGT60002US

The other laptop i may get is

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35818

Thanks for any comments

I'd assume it means that it could accommodate a pair of mSATA connected SSD's, and use the RAID features built into the chipset.

[photon]

Yeah, 500GB of SSD would be 2 250GB ones in RAID 0, so that makes sense. For $1500 that doesn't seem like the amount that would come with it, as that's $500 worth of SSD at today's best prices. But I'm not up to date with laptop prices.

[Hack&Lube]

RAID 0 means that the two drives are configured together as a one storage array. The computer thinks they are a single drive but you theoretically get up to twice the performance.

One drive is like one person digging a hole. Two drives in RAID is like two people digging a hole together.

Traditionally the problem with RAID 0 was that if one drive failed, everything was toast because half of the data is meshed together onto each drive and you can't recover your data with one drive alone. But with SSDs, failure (at least from mechanical reasons) is unlikely.

It's just my opinion but I've seen the MSI laptops in person and I think they are quite ugly and for gaming laptops, I prefer ones that look more professional and more like sleepers that you don't expect to have that kind of power under the hood but that's just a matter of personal taste.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

RAID 0 means that the two drives are configured together as a one storage array. The computer thinks they are a single drive but you theoretically get up to twice the performance.

Or the same performance using lower cost, lower performance parts working in parallel, which is an intriguing option with cheaper, larger, slower SSD drives, since no matter what you get the big benefits of lower latency and mechanical reliability.

The I in RAID originally meant inexpensive, something that a lot of people forgot along the way.

[Kavvy]

Thank you all for the responses!

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by photon

Yeah, 500GB of SSD would be 2 250GB ones in RAID 0, so that makes sense. For $1500 that doesn't seem like the amount that would come with it, as that's $500 worth of SSD at today's best prices. But I'm not up to date with laptop prices.

Prices are dropping, here's a couple of 240GB at around $200 each.

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...r&promoid=1382

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...y&promoid=1114