The ability to support array of disk in RAID for the majority of contemporary desktop systems ceased to be something exotic - all contemporary chipset Intel and AMD do not require additional controllers.
Intel company for some reasons on this week decided to recall that the prepared for announcement nearer to the second-half of following year server processors sandy bridge-EP and Sandy bridge-EX will support work with RAID disk . Central processor already include many controllers: memory, PCI express and graphic system. Now come the turn of RAID controller , but only in the server segment.
In comparison with the discrete controller RAID, this solution ensures a decrease in prime cost and energy consumption level, in this case the load on the central processor does not exceed 5%. The server processors sandy bridge will support RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10. Related Products :
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