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RAID card now adds 2-3 week delay
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Not to introduce any rationality or common sense here, but it's more like a sign of them being out of RAID cards.
What's with the attitude man?
A couple of weeks ago you could add a RAID card and ship time was only 2-3 days
This is an interesting development. I don't really expect the RAID card to be a major feature that would be some proof of an update though.
Don't confuse attitude with sensibility. I know it's not as much fun to take things in the least offensive way, but it's never the wrong way to go.
I'm going to have to agree with MikeL here.
Processor upgrades or the Mac Pro delay in general would be a better sign.
My logic on this was as follows:
If Apple plans on making a major upgrade to the Mac Pro, the current RAID card may no longer be compatible and they have now depleted their stock of the current model since they had not ordered any new ones from the manufacturer. Thus the 2/3 week delay would result in the order never being placed since the new model would be announced by the time the order was supposed to ship. I don't think it is that far-fetched.
It's a PCI-Express card.
They're going to have to make a very dramatic change.
It's like saying no expansion cards.
Processor upgrades take it back 4-6 days, up from 2-4. I am sure they have enough stock Pros, so I doubt those would be delayed.
It's a PCI-Express card.
They're going to have to make a very dramatic change.
It's like saying no expansion cards.
Or built in raid...thus no need for a card.
Dammit. Does this mean I have to buy some bloody card for my Mac Pro, in addition to the second hard drive I'm getting, before I can run a mirrored RAID?
Built in hardware RAID is pretty unlikely. That's a bit of grasping at straws while unrealistically raising expectations.
I went and checked the Intel server chipsets as well.
Do you of one with built-in hardware RAID?
The damn motherboard of MP has always had a integrated raid 0,1 and 5, as far as I know!!
It´s just that the osx apparently doesnt know how to use it so apple has disabled it.
Are you taking a piss?
If not,the OS X has a software raid in it. It is fairly fast with relatively low CPU usage. About 15-40% slower than HW raid depending on the disk setup. It can do 0 and 1 (supported) but also 0+1 and 10 (not supported,need to put them together with terminal).
The software raids work just fine from my experience.
Been running raid10 for last 16 months with no problems.
what do you guys do?
sit there everyday checking bto on all macs and seeing if there is a delay?
like get a life
come on..its just prob delayed or they are out of them or something
sit there everyday checking bto on all macs and seeing if there is a delay?
like get a life
come on..its just prob delayed or they are out of them or something
Well I've found that the 5000X among other Intel chipsets does have a software RAID but not a hardware one.
That's interesting too. Does anyone think that the MacPro could be released before MacWorld? That way they can stick with a bunch of other stuff for MacWorld? 1/1/08 could be an interesting day.
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I mean,from the day one about "everyone" here ranted about how the mobo has the hardware support for HW raid?? I personally have a faint recollection of reading a PDF in witch there was stated that the motherboard supports the forementioned raids, under XP.
So,how on earth can a motherboard have a raid implemented in it,being software driven and not hardware?
So are all the other pc (talking about intel and amd supported PC side motherboard) that state that they have hardware raids actually software raids?
I mean, I think I have had one,run raid0 on it and thinkin it always was a HW one...
Eidoran,Not to kick you in the proverbal boob,just curious...
I was one as well to think that there was a hardware RAID on the motherboard. I read Intel's documentation and they consistently say software RAID. There might be some low level firmware implementation and drivers behind it but software is slammed right next to RAID every time in Intel's own PDFs.?
I mean,from the day one about "everyone" here ranted about how the mobo has the hardware support for HW raid?? I personally have a faint recollection of reading a PDF in witch there was stated that the motherboard supports the forementioned raids, under XP.
So,how on earth can a motherboard have a raid implemented in it,being software driven and not hardware?
So are all the other pc (talking about intel and amd supported PC side motherboard) that state that they have hardware raids actually software raids?
I mean, I think I have had one,run raid0 on it and thinkin it always was a HW one...
Eidoran,Not to kick you in the proverbal boob,just curious...