The fact is that most BIOS upgrades are not often the cause of new peripheral developments such as larger HDD's new o/s controlled hardware functions or faster processors.
The sad fact is that many products come on to the market to early not having been fully tested and validated.
In this market place there are very few responsible manufacturers, take for example the new E7500 chipset from Intel supporting Dual Xeon processors. This chipset is full of bugs but companies like Tyan forge ahead and still release the product on the market place. However companies like IWill are few and far between, instead of releasing the product the redevelop it with the E7501 chipset, with bugs resolved. The reason for the difference is the structure of the company, where a good engineer has the final decision, your less likely to get a product going to market that isn't ready. On the flip side if a company is so sales and market focused you get these people forcing product to market far to early.
What I'm trying to say is that all to often most motherboards and many serverboard manufacturers release products in to the market that are not probably finished, just to get ahead of the competition. Inevitably, you are the guinea pig and do their testing for them, but it takes time for your BIOS complaint to be resolved, and even then they might still make a pigs arse of the new release delaying your project perhaps and maybe even costing you money.
Moral: Choose your motherboard and serverboards carefully, today's latest release might look great on paper but is more than like to have been rushed to market and not be fully tested.
Being a innovative buyer can often be a downfall. Let someone else have all the headaches before you commit to tomorrows wonder board!
Interesting and I can't wait to get my hands on an Eval Ultra 320 SCSI drive from Seagate, which is very here and now.
But with all this talk of growing apoferritin and magnetic proteins to get close to the illusive 1TB/inch. I just wonder at what point my hard drives going to get up and walk out my PC.
http://www.nanomagnetics.co.uk Chasing the ACE in the UK for big drives, currently about to demo 8GB/inch a long way off that 1TB mark.
One problem faced by any company in this game is the pace of development and often todays leading technological break through gets leap frogged by abother. Leaving some people seriously out of pocket.
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The fact is that most BIOS upgrades are not often the cause of new peripheral developments such as larger HDD's new o/s controlled hardware functions or faster processors.
The sad fact is that many products come on to the market to early not having been fully tested and validated.
In this market place there are very few responsible manufacturers, take for example the new E7500 chipset from Intel supporting Dual Xeon processors. This chipset is full of bugs but companies like Tyan forge ahead and still release the product on the market place. However companies like IWill are few and far between, instead of releasing the product the redevelop it with the E7501 chipset, with bugs resolved. The reason for the difference is the structure of the company, where a good engineer has the final decision, your less likely to get a product going to market that isn't ready. On the flip side if a company is so sales and market focused you get these people forcing product to market far to early.
What I'm trying to say is that all to often most motherboards and many serverboard manufacturers release products in to the market that are not probably finished, just to get ahead of the competition. Inevitably, you are the guinea pig and do their testing for them, but it takes time for your BIOS complaint to be resolved, and even then they might still make a pigs arse of the new release delaying your project perhaps and maybe even costing you money.
Moral: Choose your motherboard and serverboards carefully, today's latest release might look great on paper but is more than like to have been rushed to market and not be fully tested.
Being a innovative buyer can often be a downfall. Let someone else have all the headaches before you commit to tomorrows wonder board!
Yawn yawn,
Take a true story about Britian and re-cast as though America is the hero.
Who give's a stuff, maybe it made the US feel better about Pearl Harbour.
My appolgies for our Winstan Churchill keeping that under his hat, but we needed your men for the D-day landings.
It seems only a large tragedy can get the US involved with helping any one but its self.
Interesting and I can't wait to get my hands on an Eval Ultra 320 SCSI drive from Seagate, which is very here and now.
But with all this talk of growing apoferritin and magnetic proteins to get close to the illusive 1TB/inch. I just wonder at what point my hard drives going to get up and walk out my PC.
http://www.nanomagnetics.co.uk Chasing the ACE in the UK for big drives, currently about to demo 8GB/inch a long way off that 1TB mark.
One problem faced by any company in this game is the pace of development and often todays leading technological break through gets leap frogged by abother. Leaving some people seriously out of pocket.