Re: [PLUG] Real (driverless) hardware RAID controller for PC?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:

This is very helpful. I have two more questions:

1. There are many motherboards that advertise themselves as offering onboard RAID. My understanding is that these are essentially a built-in "fake raid" controller, in that they still offload work to the OS and therefore require a driver. Is that correct?

2. Looking at the linux RAID wiki on kernel.org, it seems that no special hardware is required to set up and use RAID with mdadm--a couple of hard drives plugged into the onboard SATA controllers of any ol' motherboard would be fine. Is that also correct?

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid

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