Saturday, November 15, 2008

Intel® Matrix Storage: software raid?

It's still unclear to me if this is software raid or not.
It might depend on the chipset. My chipset is "Intel® ICH9M-E SATA AHCI/RAID controller hub" which seems to hint that it is hardware RAID.

Dear lazyweb, anyone know how to find if this is software or hardware raid?

4 comments:

Jon Dowland said...

Sounds like fake RAID (see wikipedia). I'd recommend avoiding it and just using linux md RAID.

Simon Farnsworth said...

yes, that's a software RAID chipset. The
reason it has the "RAID" class marker on offer is that Windows will try and
drive the chipset with a generic driver that's not software RAID aware, unless
the chip is tagged as a RAID controller.

gleepglop said...

avoid the intel matrix at all costs. utter rubbish

Joost Yervante Damad said...

Thanks all for your comments. I'll just use the linux native software RAID.