Quote Originally Posted by haoster View Post
thanks for the fast reply....
i guess ill take the risky chance, see if it will work with no problem in raid... if not, i guess ill have to rma the board..i am just too lazy to take out all the waterblocks.
btw, if i rma the buggy board, and get a new one with no problem at all, do you think 2 wd6400aaks in matrix raid 0+1 will out perform 2 raptors in matrix 0+1? i have been read so many articles and benches showing the new wd 640g aaks has same or better performance than the raptors.
WD will win on some tests if I recall well, especially those with large files. On small files, the low latency of raptor will win. Performance/prise/silence/heat/capacity wise, the new WD clearly is the winner. Now, there are those new velociraptors, but on the ratio above, I doubt they win the WD unless some specific usage cases.