<quote who="James Gregory">

> Finally, my motherboard (an Abit IIRC) claims to have an on-board
> Highpoint hardware RAID controller. Is there any compelling reason to use
> this vs software RAID? Is the RAID on-disk format standardised between
> controllers? (ie if I do use hardware RAID, will I have issues moving
> these drives to another computer?)

Definitely use Linux's software RAID over the Highpoint's software RAID
(it's not really hardware RAID at all). Easier to manage, understand,
transfer, yada yada yada.

- Jeff

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