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<div>Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:19:39 +0200<br>From: arnold@arnoldarts.de<br>To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>Subject: Re: [LAU] OT: New i7 rig, Gfx card recomendations and more.<br><br><pre>On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:46:49 +0000 Kaza Kore <dj_kaza@hotmail.com><br>wrote:<br>> TL/DR:<br>> Z68 - works with RAID5 on SATA2 ports OK?<br>> RME HDSP card - PCI or PCIe?<br>> Gfx card recommendations??<br>> Or persuade me to go for a cheaper rig as I probably don't really<br>> need all that...<br>> <br>> Regards, Dale.<br>> <br>Regarding the raid5:<br><a href="http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/" target="_blank">http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/</a><br> <br>And we (as the business I work for) have dismissed hw-raid in general.<br>A while back you only got problems if your controller broke and you<br>didn't have the same again. Nowadays you even get problems when you<br>update the firmware of the controller (or when your cold-standby<br>doesn't have the correct fw-version). Just stay away from it.<br><br><font style="" color="#0070C0">With something that is going to be quite so mobile I really preferably <br>do want to be running the OS off a RAIDed drive! Sure I could use a <br>single drive and regularly ghost it to a backup one at home but this <br>isn't going to help me if it gets damaged on the way to a party. Well <br>guess it might if I also take the spare and backup after every event... <br>RAID seems so much more suited to the job though!</font><br> <br>For the Mobo: Use something from a brand known for quality. Asus might<br>do okayish laptops, their boards are almost as crap as asrock. For an<br>intel-system, why not use an intel board? The higher price is _small_<br>when you take the higher quality into account. High-quality boards<br>last much longer and work better.<br><br><font style="" color="#0070C0">Asus known as being shit? I admit I haven't done much researched into <br>hardware since I built my last desktop I think in 2001 and that definitely <br>didn't seem to be the consensus then. And it seems weird that we would <br>chose a known poor component for video ingest servers which are to be on <br>24/7, although it is already the third revision of the build. So what <br>would you recommend?</font><br> <br>PCI is dead, any graphics card with linux-support is good. Now the<br>salesman in me takes over: intel is actively supporting the<br>linux-community also in the graphics field, not like nvidia. Yes, we<br>are an intel-reseller. We only see other hardware when its broken and<br>the customers want us to fix it or get the data of from it.<br> <br><font style="" color="#0070C0">Yeah PCI is definitely on the way out! But dead just yet? Almost every <br>board I've looked at has at least 1 for legacy reasons. I guess the same <br>was true for ISA for a while after PCI came out though and those were <br>gone off 99% of boards many years ago... My thoughts were more trying <br>to ensure that the support for the PCIe version of the HDSP card was as <br>supported as the PCI version.<br><br>So I will look at an ATI card then :-)<br><br>Although I am slightly leaning towards trying to get my old P4 computer <br>back up and working and see quite how underpowered for what I want to do <br>it turns out to be. I think the graphics card is the only fully dead component...<br><br><br>Cheers to everybody who has responded.<br><br>Dale.<br></font></pre>_______________________________________________
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