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Onboard RAID vs Software RAID

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Mar 15, 202635543 views
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My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID controller closer in performance to a software controller or a dedicated hardware controller?

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Hardware RAID, which means buying a RAID card, and installing it in your computer is good. Software RAID is low performance, but it's reasonably stable, and pretty reliable. "Onboard" RAID, which is the crappy RAID emulation built into your motherbo…

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