whats the deal with RAID on motherboards?

shiv666

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its seems that almost every modern motherboard listed at new egg claims to have raid...for example lets look at this board...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358

in the specs you will see this....
SATA RAID 0/1/5/10

does that mean that the board can support those raid levels natively? or does that mean that it can support software raid at those levels?

usually a raid card costs way more than the board...so what exactly do you get when you buy a board like the one i posted? is it using the main cpu and ram?

i want to set up raid 0 array for my system drive...

 

toosober

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It is software or "fake" raid.
I run multiple arrays on ichr9 and ichr10 chipsets with windblows boxes.
With Linux, raid5 is not supported on the controller, and you would just setup software raid like you would with any controller albeit ichr or not.