Intel's Virtual RAID on CPU needs a dongle

Yes. They may lock you in to only using Intel drives.

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>>60742366
Of course! Don't want those nasty goys cutting into our server sales, now.

This has been the norm for server mobos for years. This will never fly for consumers though. The target audience will spend 10 bucks on a raid card before buying a dongle.

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>>60742366
They don't want to cannibalise their enterprise eco-structure.

Typical intel

>>60742627
>>60742541
I don't get in. So, let's assume those i9s are cheaper than Xeons and I want to run a server with them. I'll buy a separate RAID card with BBU, if all you can propose is FakeRAID then it's better to use mdadm.

>>60742692
No EEC.

>>60742614
no counterfeit dongle?

>>60742627
>800x600 benchmarking

Does the person who made this image do not how what a CPU benchmark is or why is the resolution lowered in the first place?

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>>60742749
oi vey why would you want to bench higher than 640x480, goy?

>>60742692
A separate RAID array will cost you a lot more than the dongle and just running it off the motherboard, a good RAID card with ECC memory and battery reserve is expensive.
If you already have one then it's another story, but this way they can at least prevent people doing it the cheap and easy way.

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>>60742749
It's a meme anon, enjoy it.

>>60742765

No you're right, we should benchmark things at 4k like AMD did so the GPU can be the bottleneck, right?

>>60742785
1080p 240hz is a meme. Sorry, bro. 1080p 144hz is a bit more sensible but really, 1440p 75hz is where it's at.

>>60742770
Also, if you want to join M.2, U.2 or AIC SSDs, then you'll have no choice but to shell out the cash, as they run directly from the PCI-E lanes.

>>60742770
Well, yes, but it "runs on the CPU", which means FakeRAID with all of its disadvantages: you need separate tools to monitor it, you need drivers, which can be not released for every distro. To be honest, I don't see FakeRAID advantages at all, except when it's Windows which can't boot from a software RAID.

>>60742770
The dongle just grants you permission to use Intel's own bastardized flavor of software RAID.
Or you could just tell them to fuck off and use a standard software RAID solution since any serious OS already has them and they're completely unrestricted.