Something looks horribly wrong with your desktop but I can't quite put my finger on it >_<
This is probably my biggest fear of buying 6900 series cards. Can't they shorten some connections and arrange things a little closer together or something. There's absolutely no reason for a graphics card to be 11 inches long unless it's a dual-GPU like HD5970, AMD should take a few tips from NVidia on how to NOT make stupidly large cards. I guess with HD6990 they'll say "WE HEARD YOU WANTED MOAR PERFORMANCE SO HERE YOU GO, BIGGER F**KING CARD"you shuld see my 6950 sapphire in a storm scout chassie... i had to MAKE space to get it in, AKA bend the some of the things on the chassie to make it fit lol
Bad luck with the Storm Scout though, doesn't it have a removable HDD cage? Most decent cases today have that feature.
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Hard drive raiding (I'm summarizing it up very short now) is when you group up several harddrives into one. Making so reading/writing data onto this "one drive" goes faster since it has several physical drives to read/write the data on.
Evensis apparently had problems getting nice performance out of the Marvell SATA controller chip, which is a group of SATA ports not directly connected to the southbridge of the motherboard, but usually included in higher end boards so that you get more ports then what the Intel/AMD reference boards have.
I will add to it that my marvell controller is working fine for my puny software raid 0.
Edit: also this lolololololol
Ahh, sums it up a bit thanks.
I just always figured I would just get a few hard drives and just plug them in and go. >_>
Course, that would be better than nothing, since I've been going on one single hard drive for the past 2 years. >_<
so do I need to worry about any of this stuff too much if I just plan to have maybe like a new 1 TB hdd, my old hdd, and possibly an ssd? I mostly just play WoW, may fraps during 25 man raids, and make them into movies. idk how important it would be to understand the whole Raid thingy....
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Thanks!
You don't need to raid. Raid0 is nigh useless regardless.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives/Discs btw, meaning RAID0 isn't even a proper raid. Thus the 0.
I do like RAID1, RAID5, RAID6 and even RAID10 has its charms.
However, afaik, you need to have all your raided drives equal in size.
Otherwise, use them as proper drives, and you'll have nothing to worry about.
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The original acronym for RAID was replaced with the backronym "Redundant Array of Independant Disks" since the reason for "Inexpensive" no longer applied. Also, the word "disc" or "disk" has different applications, generally applied to magnetic media as "disk" (floppy or hard) and non-magnetic compact or digital-versatile "disc". Blame the Americans for "disk", and the Europeans for "disc"
RAID can function with disks of different sizes, but volumes within the RAID can only be as large as the smallest physical disk (unless you get really weird with nested RAID).
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You should have a quick flip through your motherboard manual - most will have a short section on enabling and setting up your RAID for use.
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