Feizhou wrote: > >> I had a really hard time with them when trying to troubleshoot issues >> with the 2895 board and the Highpoint Rocketraid 2224. Highpoint >> would email me replies within the hour and returned a few phone >> calls. Emails and phone calls to Tyan went unanswered for about 10 >> days at which point I got an extremely unhelpful canned email >> response (install the latest firmware and try again). I won't be >> buying any additional Tyan boards and sent all but 2 of that batch >> back (I'd deployed 2 as desktops while waiting for answers from Tyan >> and was too lazy to swap them out). >> >> Back in the 1990-1998 era, I used lots and lots of Tyan tomcat boards >> and was happy with support. So perhaps they are dropping (or have >> dropped) the ball. > > :( > > Where else can one go for solid, high I/O whitebox motherboards that > support AMD processors? > _______________________________________________ The boards we've got in our newer servers are Supermicro H8DA8. http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/8131/H8DA8.cfm So far, I've been pretty happy with them. They're all being used for storing lots of uncompressed video or fondling uncompressed video into H.264/mpeg4 streams. Cheers,