> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of 'Luke S. Crawford' > > > 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?)
What do you mean? If it's in BIOS, then it's hardware. Below the OS, regardless of what OS you're talking about. Right? Or is there some new BIOS-vs-software standard I'm not aware of? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
