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RAID can be handled either by the operating system software or it may be implemented via a purpose built RAID disk controller card without having to configure the operating system at all. This chapter will explain how to configure the software RAID s...

Whether hardware- or software-based, RAID can be configured using a variety of standards. Take a look at the most popular. Linear Mode RAID In the Linear RAID, the RAID controller views the RAID set as a chain of disks. Data is written to the nex...

Specially built hardware-based RAID disk controllers are available for both IDE and SCSI drives. They usually have their own BIOS, so you can configure them right after your system's power on self test (POST). Hardware-based RAID is transparent to yo...

Configuring RAID using Fedora Linux requires a number of steps that need to be followed carefully. In the tutorial example, you'll be configuring RAID 5 using a system with three pre-partitioned hard disks. The partitions to be used are: /dev/hde1/d...

Linux software RAID provides redundancy across partitions and hard disks, but it tends to be slower and less reliable than RAID provided by a hardwarebased RAID disk controller. Hardware RAID configuration is usually done via the system BIOS when th...