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A few days ago, my RAID1 started to fall apart. I’m using a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mainboard with the nForce 4 SLI chipset. Sadly, this chipset is not worth its money. The nVidia LAN firewall is simply broken, and the RAID controller is unreliable – what could be worse for a RAID controller. Read on for some ramblings about what will hopefully become my next PC.
I’m planning to switch over to a brand new machine mid/end next year, and although I was looking forward to use a nVidia chipset as I’ve been satisfied with the performance so far, I think that Intel is gonna make it this time. Especially if it really turns out to be a Core Quadro (recently reviewed on Tom’s Hardware) which looks like a very good platform for development. Some other things which are pretty sure is that I’ll go for 4+ GiB of RAM and a RAID5 system. The RAID1 has been so far unsatisfying, performance wise it’s ok but that’s it basically, and a RAID5 should give me a nive performance edge at the same data safety level.
I have doubts AMD/ATI will come up with a competitive solution which is also reliable. After the adventures I had with my current rig (which was by then cutting-edge technology from AMD/nVidia) I’ll wait at least 6 months until the Intel quad core has matured a bit. If AMD comes with a quad core out at a similar time as Intel, they can make it, otherwise they’ll miss my time frame and I’m really not willing to risk buying “beta” class hardware again.
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Schau, mach’s wie ich.
Ich hab kein RAID – also kann es auch nicht kaputt gehen.
Joar aber ich hab Daten die ich sicher haben will. Wenn ich schon so eins drin hab dann will ich es auch nutzen können. Aber ist ja im worst-case nur noch ein Jahr und dann kommt die aktuelle Kiste wieder weg.