Intel's ICH5R south hub seems to provide good RAID support and is lots cheaper than the PCI cards. http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/ iaa_raid/
Sadly no Linux drivers yet, but the performance seems better than other cards due to no PCI-bus limitation: http://forums.overclockers.co.nz/show thread.php?s= &threadid=8156&highlight=raptor
the salaried employees are "exempt" status (exempt from what I don't really know, maybe overtime pay:-) The hourly employees are "non-exempt" -- most hourly employees are doing things like running wafers through the fab or repairing equipment. High level engineering or programming is almost never done by hourly employees unless they are contractors. Also, I know they don't receive nearly as much for stock options. So, for Intel, and I think many large companies are similar, its much better to be salaried . . . the company simply places a higher value on their salaried employees.
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Intel's ICH5R south hub seems to provide good RAID support and is lots cheaper than the PCI cards./ iaa_raid /
w thread.php?s= &threadid=8156&highlight=raptor
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets
Sadly no Linux drivers yet, but the performance seems better than other cards due to no PCI-bus limitation:
http://forums.overclockers.co.nz/sho
the salaried employees are "exempt" status (exempt from what I don't really know, maybe overtime pay :-) The hourly employees are "non-exempt" -- most hourly employees are doing things like running wafers through the fab or repairing equipment. High level engineering or programming is almost never done by hourly employees unless they are contractors. Also, I know they don't receive nearly as much for stock options. So, for Intel, and I think many large companies are similar, its much better to be salaried . . . the company simply places a higher value on their salaried employees.