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Does fake RAID offer any advantage over software RAID?

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Mar 15, 202618733 views
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Does a fake RAID controller do any useful work or is it just like a place where to store the parameters? I know that Linux offers much more flexibility than my poor on-board controller, but this is not important for me. Is there any performance advantage by using the fake RAID?

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Generally speaking there is no significant performance difference at all between software RAID and fake RAID, as fake RAID is more-or-less software RAID anyway. Any parity calcs (for RAID5 and similar) will be done in the CPU in either case (and I'd…

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