To "hardware" RAID 5 or software RAID 5

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 11:12 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:09:46PM -0800, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> >   
> >> raid solutions [I know it isn't truly hardware raid], or should I use  
> >> Fedora's built in software raid for what I want to accomplish.  I  
> >>     
> >
> > Linux's built-in software raid is more sophisticated, better tested, and
> > probably better performing than any of these bios-assisted software raids.
> > Use it instead.
> >
> >   
> I get the feeling that these cheap hardware raid solutions we get for 
> "free" on the mainboard are sudo-raid-wannabes and that the "driver" you 
> have to load to use them with Windows is just software RAID...
> 
> Can anyone confirm that is the behavior...?
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yes

Craig