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I would buy a large laptop (17 inch display) and would hope for it to be able to accommodate two velociraptor hard disk drives that I would set up in a RAID 0 array.
How can I tell which laptops accomodate two hard disks and have a RAID controller?
1I'm not a laptop person, but I'd be surprised if laptop manufacturers left space for a second HDD. Space is too much of a premium in laptops. – pavium – 2009-11-14T11:19:41.103
@pavium, there are some upper end laptops, such as gaming laptops that have 2 Hard drives in them, but otherwise the laptop would not likely come with provision for an extra HDD – Jonno_FTW – 2009-11-14T11:23:56.773
I see. A 'gaming laptop' sounds like a very exotic animal to me. I'd go with wazoox's datasheet idea, but leave the screwdriver at home. – pavium – 2009-11-14T11:42:04.083
1laptops that can accommodate 2 hard drives usually do so by default, unless the manufacturer is selling a lower spec varaint of the model. so. look for laptops that do have 2 hard drives by default, you can replace them with your velociraptors (or better with SSDs, raid0 + velociraptor sounds like 'need for speed' and there is simply no platter hard drive matching the performance of a decent solid state disk, raid or no raid) – None – 2009-11-15T02:35:11.757