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Finally some PCI-e 4x slots on Motherboards

I am impressed with the initial batch of X58/ICH10R motherboards by both Asus and GigaByte. Some if not all of them finally have PCIe 4x slots which are perfect for lower end ($300) real Hardware full bandwidth RAID 4 disk cards for raid 10 which in my opinion is the highest throughput & redundancy solution.

I just don't trust Intel's ICH Matrix RAID as being truly RAID.

On that same note though a couple of these higher end boards have Marvell simple RAID 1 or 0 chips on them. While that is encouraging it is not a full fledged hardware RAID solution.

Posted by: dunn@...   Posted on: 11/19/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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