On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:20:11 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/2/25 2:09 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote: >> I just built a brand new pc with a Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 >> motherboard with 2xnvme drives and 2xssd drives. In UEFI I configured >> two raid-1 arrays, one for nvme and one for ssd. Then booted from the >> Fedora 41 live image and started the installation and I expected that >> the installer would see just 2 drive - one for each raid array. >> However, it detected all 4 drives individually. >> >> Then I stopped the installation and in a shell I ran lsblk -f and >> indeed, the 4 disks were treated as separate. >> >> One post on google mentioned that hardware raid requires some drivers >> that exist for windows, but linux only supports some raid controllers. >> That's surprising to me, because I've had raid on various machines over >> the years without the issue - maybe because they were all Dell. >> >> Of course, I can do software raid, but does anyone have any experience >> with hardware raid on Fedora with a Gigabyte motherboard? > > If the OS can see all 4 drives, then the "RAID" isn't hardware RAID and > isn't really doing anything. Is there a reason you don't want to use > the Linux software RAID? It's generally a better option.
Anything done in hardware must be faster than in software, so if true raid works correctly and is being recognized by the os, I think it's preferable. Of course, if software raid is the only option, I have no objections using it. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
