2 x 320GB HDD in my Qosmio G30 - SOLUTION

Since I had some difficulty finding this information, I hope it's useful to some of you.
For a while I have been considering to upgrade my two 120Gb harddisks to something bigger. However I got contradicting information about the maximum size the G30 would accept. Nobody was able to assure me that a certain size would work.
Since prices have dropped a lot recently, and I can always use the disks externally, I bought two 320Gb disks, and decided to simply try it. I just finished fitting them.
Installing XP using the original recovery disk went perfectly. I have them working in Raid 0, striping configuration, and sofar they work flawlessly with the full capacity (about 600Gb.
Not only a lot more space, but these bigger disks are supposed to be faster too. As far as I'm concerned an excellent and relatively cheap upgrade.

This is really helpful posting.
Thanks you for this short notification
Bye

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