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1. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
TimvandenOever Oct 14, 2014 12:39 PM (in response to Chase Chick)It's a good controller for the additional 8 ports, shame it needs that tiny fan but it's no doubt necessary.
Other than that it's much like previous Extreme11 boards. Lots of sata and the highest price card of any mobo.
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2. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
ECBowen Oct 14, 2014 12:58 PM (in response to Chase Chick)There is something far more important on that board than the onboard LSI SAS controller though that is a nice free feature. The Reg Dimm support with Xeons is a serious break from systemboard manufactures standard policy. Normally they reserve that for the server boards only forcing people to those more expensive boards with less features just for the Reg dimm support. Reg dims mean 16GB dims available on X99 which is 128GB of ram. That is huge. I really hope Asus will do the same for atleast the WS series board but I wont hold my breath. BTW keep in mind SAS controllers are crippled when used onboard. The cache that comes with the controller card is an important aspect to the raid performance over the entire volume. Don't rely on that for high performance parity raids.
EricADK
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3. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
TimvandenOever Oct 14, 2014 1:04 PM (in response to ECBowen)I didn't know that about the reg support. Is that something that would be beneficial to an editing computer though? It was my understanding of ECC & registered dimms that it both will cost you a few percent of your memory performance.
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4. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
ECBowen Oct 14, 2014 1:06 PM (in response to TimvandenOever)The benefit is the 16GB density dimms in DDR4. You cant get 16GB unbuffered Dimms right now. It may be next year or longer before you see them. 16GB Dimms means 128GB of ram. That is the reason you want Reg Dimms with Xeons for editing.
Eric
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5. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
Chase Chick Oct 14, 2014 10:29 PM (in response to Chase Chick)So I guess my big question is, with throughput like that, would this mobo be able to replace (or approach) the concept of getting a RAID controller? With slots for 18 storage drives, and their video boasting throughput north of 2 gbs, that sounds like plenty to me without having to drop a grand on a RAID controller...
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6. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
Roboionator Oct 14, 2014 10:33 PM (in response to Chase Chick)mobo in video
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7. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
ECBowen Oct 15, 2014 2:03 PM (in response to Chase Chick)It depends on the raid level you want to run and the disk performance required? You can get 600 to 700MB/s on that onboard raid probably with a parity raid but that performance will likely drop far quicker as the volume fills on that parity raid with the onboard raid controller. There are no onboard SAS raid controllers that can compete with a SAS raid card even with LSI chips used for both.
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8. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
Chase Chick Oct 15, 2014 11:04 PM (in response to ECBowen)In the video produced by Asrock, they are tooting their horns of throughput north of 2 gbs. Seems fast enough for me.
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9. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
ECBowen Oct 16, 2014 7:35 AM (in response to Chase Chick)They did not show the results for the SAS controller only and in any raid form beyond raid 0. The throughput may be available for full performance but that doesn't mean it will perform nearly up to the pipe with the onboard controller with any parity raid. 8 port SAS even on a real SAS controller averages 600 to 700MB/s with a real SAS card. Burst can go well beyond 1GB/s but once again that is heavily reliant on the cache. The average performance for the entire volume is also reliant on the cache. I am just stating the limitations.
EricADK
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10. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
TimvandenOever Oct 16, 2014 7:55 AM (in response to Chase Chick)Can't you get around 1.5 GB/s solely from a pair of m2 ssds... Some of the nicer new pci express ssd's can do around a GB, though mind that there's a lot of different models being made right now. A lot of those just add a pci controller to a sata ssd, but I see some promising things from a few companies.
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11. Re: What do you guys think about this Mobo?
ECBowen Oct 16, 2014 9:16 AM (in response to TimvandenOever)Yes 2x M.2 drives would give that performance.
Eric
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