- Aug 20, 2014
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Hello,
I am planning on building a new computer soon, and I am going to use two 1TB HDDs in RAID 1 for some basic protection against a hard drive failure. I have been doing some research into RAID and have found that hardware RAID solutions are superior to software RAID, and while the motherboard that I am getting (like basically all motherboards nowadays) has RAID support, I can't find any evidence as to whether or not the motherboard has a dedicated chip for the RAID, or if it's a function of the BIOS, and I should go about buying a cheap PCI RAID controller.
I'm getting a GIGABYTE GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 in-case my question is specific to the model, but (correct me if I'm wrong), I'm assuming that I can safely generalize my question to all motherboards on the market right now.
Thanks!
I am planning on building a new computer soon, and I am going to use two 1TB HDDs in RAID 1 for some basic protection against a hard drive failure. I have been doing some research into RAID and have found that hardware RAID solutions are superior to software RAID, and while the motherboard that I am getting (like basically all motherboards nowadays) has RAID support, I can't find any evidence as to whether or not the motherboard has a dedicated chip for the RAID, or if it's a function of the BIOS, and I should go about buying a cheap PCI RAID controller.
I'm getting a GIGABYTE GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 in-case my question is specific to the model, but (correct me if I'm wrong), I'm assuming that I can safely generalize my question to all motherboards on the market right now.
Thanks!
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