Robert,
Yes I understand that. I am trying to keep the cost down and if the
Motherboard I get has a good onboard controller than it will save me some
$$$$


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 11/17/13 11:52, john boris wrote:
>
>> up. I can live with an onboard Raid controller as I plan to use 2 drives
>> mirrored.
>>
>
> The bane of "on-board RAID".  Make sure the on-board RAID solution is not
> of the "fakeraid" variety. The "fakeraid" only exists for dual boot
> compatibility with "other" operating systems. When a "fakeraid" device goes
> into a failure mode (degraded RAID set), it stops.  You need to boot
> windows to rebuild the RAID set.  The "fakeraid" is a BIOS boot supported
> software RAID.
>
>
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