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Sure. But I wouldn't accept my motherboard supplier locking hardware features behind software updates either. Like if my can do pci express 16x. I wouldn't thi
by Okawari 6y ago
Sure.
But I wouldn't accept my motherboard supplier locking hardware features behind software updates either. Like if my can do pci express 16x. I wouldn't think it is right that it only does 8x unless I pay for a software unlock
- Pet_Ant 6y agoHappens all the time in electronics. They usually built the top end and then burn off or snip the wires to produce the lower end.
- jaclaz 6y agoA few years ago there was the known Quadro/Geforce videocard issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555 basically adding or removing a few resistors made card performa like other models costing hundreds of dollars more.
- tedunangst 6y agoYou just described basically every consumer motherboard with raid. It's there in the chipset, but requires a key to unlock.
- teraflop 6y agoEvery consumer motherboard that I've bought in the last decade or more has supported RAID, and none of them have required any additional purchase to "unlock" it.
- tedunangst 6y agoCorrecting myself: I was thinking specifically of intel vroc, which is actually more an enterprise thing.
- gjvc 6y agoI've seen supermicro boards in the past 5 years which have this.