The 2nd one is way way better then the first one. If I had the option and the money, I would have bought it this minute :)
Hetz On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dvir Volk <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Hetz. > I was only referring to the RAID feature. I'm sure the rest will just work. > Guess I'm going to put ubuntu or fedora on this one. > > I'll buy the second one, just to be safe (not my dime anyway... ;) ) > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dvir, >> >> I checked both of the boards you've mentioned.. >> >> * The GA-73PVM-S2H is very "entrey level" board. nForce 630i chipset >> and it supports RAID, but it's really up to the distribution you >> install if it will supports it or not, since it depends on drivers >> from nVidia. Basically if you can set it from the ROM, it should be >> supported, but I'm not sure which distribution you use and their >> support for nVidia stuff. >> >> * The GA-EG45M-DS2H is a whole different board. It's a "small beast" >> actually which can supports up to 16GB of RAM (great if you're using >> VM's) and it's full Intel supported chipset (if you're going to >> seriously use it as a desktop, make sure you buy a good graphics card, >> Intel graphics are crap! invest few more hundreds shekels and buy a >> dedicated ATI or NVidia graphics card on either board, the nVidia 7100 >> also sucks, specially if you want to play HD movies). It should be >> fully supported by your Linux distribution, including hardware >> (assisted?) RAID level 0,1,5,10. >> >> Hope it helps :) >> Hetz >> >> 2009/3/26 Dvir Volk <[email protected]>: >> > Hi, >> > I want to buy a cheap desktop machine with HW RAID 1 and install linux on >> > it. >> > A shop offered me 2 different desktop boards with RAID on them: >> > Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H, and GA-EG45M-DS2H >> > >> > googling and manufacturer sites didn't reveal anything, so: >> > 1. Does anyone have any Linux experience with these or similar boards? >> > 2. Do I have anything to worry about or should it just work? >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Linux-il mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. >> my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
