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So I'm going to buy a new computer...
raandomer:
there's still no eta yet so its just a vague "it launches in a couple of months"
and again i wont make any comments on performance until i can atleast see the bloody chip
and those with 1 slot arent raid cards, theyre just sata3 cards
kitamesume:
the pricing is out so it should be technically released but yet to be retailed, most likely to be out before july finishes, ETA of the 4cores and 6cores is before September finishes(Q3 2011). they promised a faster chip than phenom II x6 so that would mean they're on tier with the i7 6cores, hopefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_FX_microprocessors
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 25, 2011, 11:53:24 AM ---... ohh and whats the point of a raid card with only two sata slots... i could even see some with only 1sata slot...
--- End quote ---
Why would you want to do RAID 1 with more than two drives? It doesn't make sense. Unless you're using drives that are very prone to failure, which is a terrible excuse because you shouldn't use those drives in that case anyway.
Two-slot cards offer cost vs. value benefits to customers who only want one mirror.
tomoya-kun:
Waiting for parts to come. It'll take a while unfortunately since I don't want them to ship separately and some of the ones are out of stock.
I've got a 5 disk external RAID which I put my animestuffs on.
kitamesume:
@ kira, for raid1, true, but other raid benefit for more drives. like raid0, raid5(minimum of 3drives) raid1+0/0+1 and others.
i know 2slots is enough for a basic raid setup but what i meant is that, vs onboard raid, which is free, its pretty much a waste of PCI-E slot because most cheap raid-card uses software raid and/or a hybrid of hardware and software raid.
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