On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Grant, >> I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this >> list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that >> partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do >> resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If >> you go with software RAID and later decide that a partition needs to >> be moved, resized, etc., then you may not be able to do it. >> >> I would suggest finding a good, if inexpensive, hardware RAID card >> or possibly play a bit with the RAID stuff on your motherboard to see >> if parted can work with it. > > What makes motherboard RAID such crap? I don't think I'll ever want > to resize partitions. Mine are very simple root, boot, and swap and > I've never wanted to change them. Is it slow, unreliable? > > Here is my motherboard: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130056 > > It is said to: > > SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 > > - Grant
Grant, I never suggested motherboard RAID is crap. I attempted to say that I have no experience with RAID systems. I've never used RAID at all myself. I was only relating what I was told by others on the list when I had a reason to ask about partition management on an existing RAID device for a friend's computer. - Mark
