How to tell if a RAID controller is capable of true hardware RAID instead of fake-RAID?
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I'm looking for a RAID card on newegg and I was warned not to get a "fake RAID" controller, where the striping, mirroring and parity processes are done on the CPU instead of the controller. How do I determine if a RAID controller is fake-RAID or not?
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Fakeraids don't have battery backed cache. So if power is lost, all write-behind cache data is lost, or controller itself does not go beyond the write speed capabilities of hard drives involved. E.g., measure write IOPS for hard drives (should be 75…
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