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RAID Problems With Intel Core 2?
Nom du Keyboard writes "The Inquirer is reporting that the new Intel Core 2 processors Woodcrest and Conroe are suffering badly when running RAID 5 disk arrays, even when using non-Intel controllers. Can Intel afford to make a misstep now with even in the small subset of users running RAID 5 systems?" From the article: "The performance in benchmarks is there, but the performance in real world isn't. While synthetic benchmarks will do the thing and show RAID5-worthy results, CPU utilization will go through the roof no matter what CPU is used, and the hiccups will occur every now and then. It remains to be seen whether this can be fixed via BIOS or micro-code update."
Article implies that these are the lame RAID systems that the l33t G4m3rz use...the ones that use the CPU to do the real work, rather than having the card do it.
I didn't realize they were so wide-spread...especially in government! Seems like just an additional avenue for data corruption should the software hiccup and lunch your data.
Blar.
Raid 5 is 3 hard drives at the minimum. Most gamers will have 2 that run in striped configuration as that is the best price/performance ratio saving money for the ever expensive video cards. Corporations on the other hand have servers with dedicated raid cards.
Short answer: Move along nothing to see here.