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. > > > -- > Mr. Flibble > King of the Potato People > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com
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