On Monday 27 April 2009 14:18:39 Yahya Mohammad wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I > bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the > processing to the system CPU. What are the pros and cons of using this > as opposed to pure software RAID?
There are no pros that I have ever seen and plenty of cons. Notably - performance sucks. You are almost always better off using software RAID. Big plus - you can actually configure it to get a result closer to what you want as opposed to what the firmware manufacturer wants you to have. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
