On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:16:17 -0500, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb.
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In short, I have no idea what I'm doing, or how to do it.
Second, are you sure you need a raid setup? :-)
If I use RAID, do I set the Intel Rapid Storage Technology BIOS options
to RAID1, RECOVERY, or no RAID?
I would not go that way (Intel raid tends to be "fake-raid") :-/
If you want to use pure software raid (linux raid), there is no need to
setup nothing in the BIOS. Just tell the partitioner you ant to setup a
raid1 level between the 2 disks.