08-09-2005, 07:10 AM
I will never use nor recommend on-board RAID.
1) they are generally features added just to have them on the specs, tech support is traditionally quite poor for this area of a motherboard
2) if you somehow damage your motherboard, or it goes south after the warrantee period you pretty much have to replace it with the exact same thing or say goodbye to all your data, despite the face that the data is actually intact and should be retrievable.
couple #1 with #2 and you have the source of some significant nightmares I've read on one of the other forums I frequent: http://forums.anandtech.com
With virtually no performance benefit outside of theoretical benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc...=2101&p=10
I see little need to create 2 to 4x the likelihood of lost data that on-board RAID provides.
1) they are generally features added just to have them on the specs, tech support is traditionally quite poor for this area of a motherboard
2) if you somehow damage your motherboard, or it goes south after the warrantee period you pretty much have to replace it with the exact same thing or say goodbye to all your data, despite the face that the data is actually intact and should be retrievable.
couple #1 with #2 and you have the source of some significant nightmares I've read on one of the other forums I frequent: http://forums.anandtech.com
With virtually no performance benefit outside of theoretical benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc...=2101&p=10
I see little need to create 2 to 4x the likelihood of lost data that on-board RAID provides.
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Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.