Comments on: Asus crams a terabyte into its new laptop http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/03/asus-crams-a-terabyte-into-its-new-laptop/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Devindra http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/03/asus-crams-a-terabyte-into-its-new-laptop/#comment-553196 Devindra Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:14:41 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/03/asus-crams-a-terabyte-into-its-new-laptop/#comment-553196 I love Asus, but this thing is a disaster waiting to happen for anyone who uses the RAID 0 configuration. Haven't they learned from the horrible RAID 0 external hard drive setups that it doesn't belong in consumer-level products? They fail more often than a single hard-drive setup, and when they do there is no chance of data recovery. Let's not even get into the battery life ramifications, unless this thing eats up two of those as well... More on why RAID 0 external hard drives are awful: http://www.devindra.org/tech/2007/07/18/why-you-should-never-buy-dual-drive-raid-0-external-hard-drives/ The RAID 1 functionality is sort of nice, granted. Still, backing up on a laptop is always done better with an external drive. It may not be as convenient, but it's helpful to have your data sources in separate locations. I love Asus, but this thing is a disaster waiting to happen for anyone who uses the RAID 0 configuration. Haven’t they learned from the horrible RAID 0 external hard drive setups that it doesn’t belong in consumer-level products? They fail more often than a single hard-drive setup, and when they do there is no chance of data recovery. Let’s not even get into the battery life ramifications, unless this thing eats up two of those as well…

More on why RAID 0 external hard drives are awful:
http://www.devindra.org/tech/2007/07/18/why-you-should-never-buy-dual-drive-raid-0-external-hard-drives/

The RAID 1 functionality is sort of nice, granted. Still, backing up on a laptop is always done better with an external drive. It may not be as convenient, but it’s helpful to have your data sources in separate locations.

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