[NBLUG/talk] RAID?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:35:38AM -0500, Jack Smith wrote:
> OK, I'm ready to start setting up RAID in Fedora 8.
> 
> "The motherboard comes with the Silicon Image Sil3 1 3 2 and the NVIDIA
> nForce 4 SLI Southbridge RAID controllers that allow you to configure Serial
> ATA hard disk drives as RAID sets."
> 
> Does this mean hardware RAID is supported?  Where do I start looking to set
> it up?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Jack Smith
> 
> English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
> languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.


Most of the on-board RAID you will see in consumer motherboards aren't
actual "hardware" RAID because they require the OS to have driver support
to see the array. In my opinion it's better to use Linux software RAID as
it's more stable, has more features, and you can migrate to new hardware
much more easily.

-- 
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
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