On 18/05/15 07:35 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
To elaborate, declaring them RAID in the BIOS will make them look like one drive. This would prevent mdadm from operating entirely. You would be relying on the motherboard's firmware to handle the RAID, which is generally not a good idea.On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:29:06 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm. Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?No. :) Petter
Unless you have a high-end RAID controller, mdadm works best.