Does my computer support RAID?

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    Does my computer support RAID?


    Hi there,

    I am sure that this question has come up a lot but I am struggling to tell whether my laptop does or doesn't support RAID 0. I have a Packard Bell Easynote LJ71 with two wd blue scorpio 500GB hard drives. I don't think it does but am not sure, please could someone help me???

    Any help would be much appreciated.
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  2. Posts : 12,012
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    Why are you considering RAID?

    Just trying to understand the reason for the question.
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  3. Posts : 197
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    For a performance boost and so that I don't have to separate files between hard drives. Mainly for the performance boost.
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  4. Posts : 6,879
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    The performance boost from RAID0 (not that there is much of a boost to begin with) isn't worth the risk of losing one of the drives in the array for whatever reason, as if one drive fails you will lose everything.
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  5. Posts : 197
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    I have a really decent backup system that backs up everything once a week, in a week what I could potentially lose is not bad, anything important gets backed up immediately.
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  6. Posts : 197
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    Any help???
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  7. Posts : 6,879
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    Have you tried contacting Packard Bell and asking them? From what I can see looking at what drivers are available for it on the PB download page for that model, I would guess no.
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    stormy13 said:
    The performance boost from RAID0 (not that there is much of a boost to begin with) isn't worth the risk of losing one of the drives in the array for whatever reason, as if one drive fails you will lose everything.
    If one drive fails in non-raid you will loose everything too. The probability you will loose a drive is N times as much with raid 0 on N drives vs. a single drive. However you have N times the storage and not quite N times performance. Your decision depends on whether the data on the raid is replaceable and what risk you are willing to take if not.

    I very much doubt a Packard Bell BIOS would support RAID.
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  9. Posts : 197
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    I don't think it does support it but was just eondering, will try and contact them any way to be certain!!!
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  10. Posts : 1,653
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    Music Guy123 said:
    I don't think it does support it but was just eondering, will try and contact them any way to be certain!!!
    Your system documentation or booting to the BIOS and looking if their is any RAID setup.
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