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Re: why fake raid on motherboards?



Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> Dear debian community,
>
> Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid
> and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian.
>
> I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard.

It is cheap to do, but makes the product look more complete/expensive.
In other words, it's marketing.


>  Is
> there any advantage compared with software raid?
>   

I only see disadvantages.

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