John Doe wrote: > From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshri...@gmail.com> > >> Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand why do Hardware >> Vendors provide onboard storage raid controller chipset on the >> motherboard (fakeraid if its a software raid.). Is it a marketing >> term for selling servers. Since it does not add value at all strictly >> speaking due to the fact that the OS is unable to determine the >> Logical drives. >> Awaiting your earnest reply. > > My earnest reply would be that, like winmodems, winprinters and other > hybrids, fakeraid is cheaper to manufacture since part of the device logic is > done by the driver (at the expense of the server)... > So yes, it would be marketing to say we do RAID, while saving on the > manufacturing cost of a real raid controller... > But dunno who to blame between the server or the motherboard manufacturers... > or both. > Another marketing ploy I hated was the old drives claiming a xxGB* > capacity............ (*based on a 1:2 compression ratio). > Chipset makers are ones to blame for creating them in the first place, since they incorporated cheap RAID support in (almost) every HDD controller chipset. I guess the first one to do it is one to blame, the rest figured it is easier to implement it then explain it is not a healthy choice for data safe keeping.
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