Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

hi ya

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ricky Beam wrote:

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote:

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Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885)

personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their
opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their
mainboards again.

You're doing yurself a huge disservice based on very little experience.
Using one or two of a manufacturer's MBs is not sufficient grounds to
blacklist them.  Tyan sells a lot of these boards.  If there were serious
stability problems with them, tyan wouldn't be shipping them.

Tyan makes very good hardware.  I don't know what your problems are,
but I've never had any such problems.

ditto ... i would buy tyan motherboards since its very cost effective
for its performance and very good reliability 
( it's my 2nd choice mb for certain apps and sometimes 1st choice )

we buy lots of um  for customers that requests certain models 

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usually, if there's hardware problems, it's usually an installation
problem and/or very unlikely, 1%-5% probability of bad hardware
	- things dont always work out of the box ( cdrom installation )
	and one *-do-* need to know how to tweek it to make it work
	"right"

	- one should buy parts from reputable cpu/mb/disk distributors 
	and not any mom-n-pop website that sells "everything"

c ya
alvin