Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

[Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:12PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> 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.

I am so lucky to have consulted debian list for this. Originally I
thought I am dedicated to buy one server with this fake raid controller
at a higher price.

> 
> 
> >  Is
> > there any advantage compared with software raid?
> >   
> 
> I only see disadvantages.

Thanks, I appreciate your advice.

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Zhengquan