> Grant, > I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this > list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that > partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do > resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If > you go with software RAID and later decide that a partition needs to > be moved, resized, etc., then you may not be able to do it. > > I would suggest finding a good, if inexpensive, hardware RAID card > or possibly play a bit with the RAID stuff on your motherboard to see > if parted can work with it.
What makes motherboard RAID such crap? I don't think I'll ever want to resize partitions. Mine are very simple root, boot, and swap and I've never wanted to change them. Is it slow, unreliable? Here is my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130056 It is said to: SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 - Grant
