On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 09:29:09PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> Most motherboards nowadays support mirroring.  All the dell laptops I've
> bought in the last 2 years support raid mirroring, and half of them don't
> even have two hard drive bays.

Yeah;  but the BIOS raid is almost always really just software raid;  and
on linux the built-in software raid is generally considered better
than the software raid plus keeping the configuration in the BIOS.

Is this different in windows?  Is the bios raid considered better
than software raid alone?  (or maybe the software raid is only available
on the $900 windows server version, and BIOS raid is considerably
cheaper if you are building a desktop system?)  

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