By: David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com), August 16, 2019 4:39 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Anon (no.delete@this.email.com) on August 14, 2019 11:39 pm wrote:
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> Prior to Ryzen, my last use of them was Kaveri APUs (yes, I often need a semi-competent GPU..) and
> these were not bad at all, except for a TERRIBLE chipset Raid, and long term driver memory leaks
> that meant machines seemed to need a weekly (at best) reboot, and a 6 monthly drive format.
The only motherboard RAID I have ever used which was acceptable was Promise or Adaptec. Intel, AMD, and SI have always been terrible. If I want hardware RAID, then I use an expansion card.
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> Prior to Ryzen, my last use of them was Kaveri APUs (yes, I often need a semi-competent GPU..) and
> these were not bad at all, except for a TERRIBLE chipset Raid, and long term driver memory leaks
> that meant machines seemed to need a weekly (at best) reboot, and a 6 monthly drive format.
The only motherboard RAID I have ever used which was acceptable was Promise or Adaptec. Intel, AMD, and SI have always been terrible. If I want hardware RAID, then I use an expansion card.