Joaquin Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hi there, My boss is getting a new laptop and is getting a RAID 5 configuration on it. For whatever reason he likes to partition his drive normally to have a partition for the OS and programs, one for data and another for a scratch drive. My question is, are you still able to partition the drive? From what I figure, since he is getting 3 identicle SATA 200gb drives and with RAID 5 this should reduce the disk space by one of the drives leaving a 400gb drive? Would he be able to partition this 400gb? (assuming my 400gb assumption is correct). Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Yes. You can partition the RAID 5 array the same way you'd partition a single 400 GB drive. So slice and dice away! But man... RAID 5 in a laptop? Nice! Although how longs the battery life in that thing while powering a raid array, and how big is that thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joaquin Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hi Mike, thanks for the reply. I know, I know, seems like overkill but my boss is one of those guys who has to have the latest and greatest. Once he found out about RAID and found a company that puts it on laptops, he was hooked. I guess this laptop company is actually in Michigan but I had never heard of them, Mtech Laptops? Ever heard of them? http://www.mtechlaptops.com/specifications/mtechd900c.htm Ya he is aware it's not going to have more than an hour of battery, ordered a spare to go along with it and yes I guess it is fairly heavy as well. You know how it goes, there's no talking the boss out of what he thinks he wants lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Yea, I'm not a stranger to big laptops since I bought the Dell XPS Gen 2 laptop a few years ago that I still use for gaming, which comes in at just over 9 lbs. But that mtech is basically 12 lbs. Who needs a gym membership after carrying that around all day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Guru Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 They are rebranding sager laptops. Which, in my view are excellent OEM notebooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmich Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Actaully M-Tech and Sager both use Clevo Laptops but niether has any connection to each other. Sager is a rebrander of Clevo as are some others. Either way Clevo has some awesome laptops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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