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[joshcloud9]

I've been waiting for these to come available, love the hardware firewall
Are Epox any good?

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/vie....hmx?scriteria=BA20659

 

[Manzelle]

Originally posted by: joshcloud9
I've been waiting for these to come available, love the hardware firewall
Are Epox any good?

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/vie....hmx?scriteria=BA20659

Epox boards are great...I have owned the 8RDA+ and the 8RDA3+ - both were excellent...

 

[Pete84]

Both the mwave page and Epox's say that Raid 5 is supported, but it is not listed in the specs - will that be a fimware update or what?

 

[Wahsapa]

4 by Sil3114 with Raid 0, 1, 10 Support

so whats the difference between 5 and 10?

 

[Pete84]

Raid 10 or 1+0 is a combination of the two, striping and mirrioring. It needs four drives minimum, more can be used. It setups up two Raid 0 arrays, and mirriors them for data integrity.
Raid 5 is a parity calculating (big words i don't know what mean) array. Instead of mirroring for data integrity, it spreads the data accross a minimum of three drives. If one drive is lost, the data can be reconstituted. Oftentimes a drive is kept as a 'hot spare', so that the array will automatically rebuild.

 

[jipe]

Originally posted by: joshcloud9
I've been waiting for these to come available, love the hardware firewall
Are Epox any good?

I've never used one of their boards myself, but in general people seem to have fairly mixed opinions about them. IIRC they were one of the companies that had problems with bad capacitors a few years ago, but these days I think they only use (high-quality) japanese caps.

You might find this recent thread about them interesting, as well as this interview with one of their product managers.