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<blockquote data-quote="Karamu" data-source="post: 358291" data-attributes="member: 83877">Hi,Yes, this thing is a beast and all that, but I've just finished reading through the thread and don't understand why you're willing to use software RAID instead of hardware RAID. Hardware RAID is where RAID is implemented by the RAID controller, not Windows. It's faster, portable between operating systems, and more reliable than software RAID (especially Windows RAID). In hardware RAID, the operating system usually isn't even aware that the drive it picks up is a RAID array. Using RAID set up by the operating system on a hardware RAID controller isn't hardware RAID. It's software RAID. And, according to a review of that motherboard <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131134" target="_blank">here</a>, the motherboard RAID on your motherboard is FAKERAID (software RAID implemented the onboard drive controller). FAKERAID has NONE of the advantages of EITHER (h/w: speed, OS portability, reliability | s/w: PC portability, price), and ALL of the disadvantages of BOTH.I'm not flaming you, it's just a concern I had, so sorry if I seemed a bit harsh in this post. =) It is truly a good machine, I just would have configured it differently.EDIT: Oh, and by the way, with hardware RAID, you wouldn't have had that millions of drives problem you had earlier in the thread. Just wanted to point that out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karamu, post: 358291, member: 83877"] Hi, Yes, this thing is a beast and all that, but I've just finished reading through the thread and don't understand why you're willing to use software RAID instead of hardware RAID. Hardware RAID is where RAID is implemented by the RAID controller, not Windows. It's faster, portable between operating systems, and more reliable than software RAID (especially Windows RAID). In hardware RAID, the operating system usually isn't even aware that the drive it picks up is a RAID array. Using RAID set up by the operating system on a hardware RAID controller isn't hardware RAID. It's software RAID. And, according to a review of that motherboard [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131134"]here[/URL], the motherboard RAID on your motherboard is FAKERAID (software RAID implemented the onboard drive controller). FAKERAID has NONE of the advantages of EITHER (h/w: speed, OS portability, reliability | s/w: PC portability, price), and ALL of the disadvantages of BOTH. I'm not flaming you, it's just a concern I had, so sorry if I seemed a bit harsh in this post. =) It is truly a good machine, I just would have configured it differently. EDIT: Oh, and by the way, with hardware RAID, you wouldn't have had that millions of drives problem you had earlier in the thread. Just wanted to point that out. [/QUOTE]

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