Posts by Trout

Thanks everyone, Based upon the opinions here I changed my order this morning and removed the second HD from the 5680. I concidered the 8890 in order to keep raid, but with a possible 2 week delay on the shipping. I decided to...

Quote: Originally posted by MrOrange Oh yes, did I mention that both 8890 and the upcoming 5680 are equipped with the MR9600 pro ?? Not to mention that both beasts has raid and dual channel DDR. The 5680 on the other hand...

Quote: Originally posted by Divine_Madcat eh.. u can (2k can too), but performance isnt much better, and its less stable... Help me with this. How is software raid less stable than hardware raid? Why is the...

Quote: Originally posted by Divine_Madcat Uhh.. please tell me that you ordered a 8890, and not 5680, if you wanted to use raid... Just becuase you have two hard-drives in the 5680, does not mean you can do raid.......

For those of you that have a Raid0 configuration I have a couple questions. 1. How much real performance gain did you see. 2. Do you see an appreciable power drain on disk dependant operations (such as compiling) Thanks