Thanks for the helpful responses. Now to your questions:
On 8/14/2016 3:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Why do you use hardware RAID? There is little or no advantage and some disadvantages in doing that. Software RAID works extremely well on Linux.
Since the capability is built into many motherboards these days it seems more straightforward to me to control mirrored redundancy outside of the OS. I have no personal experience using redundant software raid even though I know Windows 7 supports it so I think it's just a matter of using what I know since it's readily available. Then with Fedora I have no idea how to go about using or configuring redundant software raid so again using the motherboard controller means one less thing I need to learn. Fedora software mirroring is certainly on my list of things to know before I die but I haven't made it that far down the list yet...
What disadvantages were you referring to with hardware raid?
Not being a gamer I don't use SLI but since we're on the subject about compatible hw...does Fedora / linux / open-source have any capable sli graphics cards which work well and easily? No idea what you mean by SLI.
It's called the Scalable Link Interface capability built into some graphics cards where you can slave 2 (or more) graphics cards together and combine their gpu processing power for more a responsive graphics interface. It's really nice for those who need it.
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