Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

The 2nd one is way way better then the first one. If I had the option
and the money, I would have bought it this minute :)

Hetz

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dvir Volk <dvirsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Hetz.
> I was only referring to the RAID feature. I'm sure the rest will just work.
> Guess I'm going to put ubuntu or fedora on this one.
>
> I'll buy the second one, just to be safe (not my dime anyway... ;) )
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dvir,
>>
>> I checked both of the boards you've mentioned..
>>
>> * The GA-73PVM-S2H is very "entrey level" board. nForce 630i chipset
>> and it supports RAID, but it's really up to the distribution you
>> install if it will supports it or not, since it depends on drivers
>> from nVidia. Basically if you can set it from the ROM, it should be
>> supported, but I'm not sure which distribution you use and their
>> support for nVidia stuff.
>>
>> * The GA-EG45M-DS2H is a whole different board. It's a "small beast"
>> actually which can supports up to 16GB of RAM (great if you're using
>> VM's)  and it's full Intel supported chipset (if you're going to
>> seriously use it as a desktop, make sure you buy a good graphics card,
>> Intel graphics are crap! invest few more hundreds shekels and buy a
>> dedicated ATI or NVidia graphics card on either board, the nVidia 7100
>> also sucks, specially if you want to play HD movies). It should be
>> fully supported by your Linux distribution, including hardware
>> (assisted?) RAID level 0,1,5,10.
>>
>> Hope it helps :)
>> Hetz
>>
>> 2009/3/26 Dvir Volk <dvirsky at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> > I want to buy a cheap desktop machine with HW RAID 1 and install linux on
>> > it.
>> > A shop offered me 2 different desktop boards with RAID on them:
>> > Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H, and GA-EG45M-DS2H
>> >
>> > googling and manufacturer sites didn't reveal anything, so:
>> > 1. Does anyone have any Linux experience with these or similar boards?
>> > 2. Do I have anything to worry about or should it just work?
>> >
>> >
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>>
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