will the new pro have bootable raid standard?

[X1Lightning]

What do you think? will the new mac pro have bootable raid built into the motherboard?
I think its pretty lame that you have to buy a 1000$ card to make that happen now....

 

[diamond.g]

What do you think? will the new mac pro have bootable raid built into the motherboard?
I think its pretty lame that you have to buy a 1000$ card to make that happen now....

Not until Intel supports it in their Intel® 632xESB I/O Controller Hubs.

If Apple were to step up to the 5400 Chipset at least they would get PCIe 2.0 support.

EDIT: Check out this datasheet [7mb]. On page 229 it talks about RAID options with the controller hub. So it looks like the ball was in Apples court to actually utilize the option. They chose not to.

 

[X1Lightning]

thanks for the link, hopefully they will do something about it in the next round...

 

[deathshrub]

will the new pro have bootable raid standard?

No.

 

[tersono]

Well, you _can_ set up a bootable RAID with the current MacPro (or anything from G4 onwards), so long as what you want is a RAID mirror. OS X has supported that in software for some considerable time (I have an old G4-400 that boots from a RAID 1 array using the built-in controller).

RAID 5 is another matter, though =]