This one should work, and it can be flashed to IT mode to get the server direct access to the drives with no raid functions in the way. I'll probably hunt around for one that is already flashed
It’s Spectre/Meltdown. Basically the CPU will guess at whether a conditional (“if…then”) will come true or not, which boosts performance quite a bit by letting the CPU continue to work while other parts of it are figuring out the conditional. It’s called branch prediction. The branch that doesn’t “win” is supposed to get flushed, but you can be lazy and skip this step, since the leftover data will just be overwritten anyway. Except until that happens, the data can still be read. Meltdown was similar and used a race condition to let code read any memory location in the entire system, which is a disastrous vulnerability since you could sniff out administrator or encryption keys that way. I’m not a computer scientist, I can’t really explain it all because I only understand the basics of it myself.
Wow, seems like a bit of laziness on Intel's part. I'm at least glad it's fixed, but I can see how that would hit their reputation hard. If you're a data center and get attacked, they'll target the cores, something that you wouldn't think of protecting in the first place.
or they were just ignoring a huge security issue for better performance, i wouldn't put it past Intel with all the shady shit they have done over the years
I mean it definitely could be in their efforts to keep up with AMD. Raw performance over safety.
or some bullshit small player that does 'cloud computing' like 'Amazon' or 'Microsoft' or 'Oracle'.
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Seems legit tbh, I was honestly just kindof concerned since a lot of raid controllers use a proprietary raid array that isn't always recoverable if the card dies, and then was a bit dubious of the whole '5 euro sas controller lmao'. To be honest I think I was being a little needlessly rude about it
They may be "RAID Controllers" but no one sane* uses the on-board RAID any more and they're just fancy JBOD to the OS.
I switched between software and onboard raid for a while since I was getting rubbish performance. Turned out it was all gigabyte's fault, among many other issues.
AM5 motherboards have really been eating it, IDK if they niggerified the PCB design department industry wide or what, I am on my second mini-itx board and this one at least boots reliably but the wifi card is dead (turns out its a very common issue for the ASRock AM5 (there is only one mini-itx ASRock board))
Granted one of these examples isn't just Intel and it's more of a driver related vulnerability than solely hardware, but it wouldn't be the first time they've left a vulnerability to rot, nor is it going to be the last for Intel or many other "big tech" companies.
It goes without saying that they're not sane in the slightest, but don't make eye contact with older enterprise on prem set ups if you can, far too many (at least where I've worked around) are still using it and the business often refuses to uplift even if they end up with such a terrible failure they have significant outages while getting services restored. It makes me weep
