I'm looking at building a new system. I do software dev and run webservers and databases on my machine. I'm also an audio enthusiast and use tools like cakewalk. Thus I'm really looking for max MIPS from my CPU as well as disk throughput (within reason).
This is still in flux, but a system I'm looking to put together would include:
i7-960
1 Crucial C300 128GB SSD (system drive)
3 Western Digital 1TB Sata3 Black HDs (RAID5).
I've read the articles about the 6Gbps drives not being able to saturate the bus and so limited returns there.
Nevertheless, those drives are only $119./ea (last time I checked) and that's not bad.
The problem is, all the Intel based MBs only have 2 Sata3 ports. For this I'd need 4, and more would be ideal.
I already see some AMD MBs with 6 Sata3 ports.
Can somebody tell me why the Intel based MBs are lagging in this area?
Is it a limitation in the chipset? All the manufacturers have this same 2 port limit.
This is still in flux, but a system I'm looking to put together would include:
i7-960
1 Crucial C300 128GB SSD (system drive)
3 Western Digital 1TB Sata3 Black HDs (RAID5).
I've read the articles about the 6Gbps drives not being able to saturate the bus and so limited returns there.
Nevertheless, those drives are only $119./ea (last time I checked) and that's not bad.
The problem is, all the Intel based MBs only have 2 Sata3 ports. For this I'd need 4, and more would be ideal.
I already see some AMD MBs with 6 Sata3 ports.
Can somebody tell me why the Intel based MBs are lagging in this area?
Is it a limitation in the chipset? All the manufacturers have this same 2 port limit.