When is RAID worth the trouble? The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. I've done this a fair amount on workstations and the result is definitely mediocre at best. How do we handle problem users? Post as a guest Name. 
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Sign up using Facebook. Dells newer servers all have decent enough raid setups in Hardware. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service. I can't say I've had any issues though and I test the machines before moving them into production by removing one driber the drives while its running just after the OS is installed and then re-installing it the next day.
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Ryaner Ryaner 2, 5 5 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. The best choice from the factory is to get thewhich uses it own processor and operates completely independent from the system processor.
Some of their older cards were using tricks to get to a raid 10 level meaning losing a drive didn't always work as it should. Rob Moir Rob Moir 30k 4 4 gold badges 53 53 silver badges 84 84 bronze badges. We have discussed a similar question so here is a direct link to answer your question. This drivrr especially common in workstation motherboards.
While I do agree that the true hardware raid is better, I don't know that I'd consider a raid card that "OS driver and card's on-board flash BIOS provide percent of the RAID capability" a software raid, to me this is more of a hybrid.
Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Looking at the spec and a quick googlex58 chipset is a fakeraid controller. Still not fantastic, but a whole lot better. Improving the question-asking experience. The T does use HW raid on setup which is fine in a workstation. For my own education, do you de,l a link that discribes in detail the differences in real raid drivdr fake raid?
I'm not a fan of software RAID at all but at least you know where you stand with it, as opposed to "is it real or is it dfll hardware. Looking at getting some Dell Workstations T Server Fault works best with JavaScript enabled.
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The uses the system processor to perform. I concur, hardware RAID.
If you don't have this luxury, find the type of RAID chip that is being used and search for it - you'll quickly find out whether its a so-called 'fakeraid' or real raid card ie one that has its own dedicated processor. Sign up using Email and Password.
Sign up to join this community. If you need reliability, that would be a reason to go with RAID1. I have an older Dell workstation at home with hardware RAID 1 and it's worked without any trouble for going on six years.
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Speed isn't a reason to specify RAID1 - any gains in one area are likely to be offset by losses in another area making the overall improvement hard to measure. See these related topics too: Searching google it appears lots of other people have the same problem.
I read how the linux page describes the differences and I don't completely agree with it. Active 4 years, 8 months ago.
t350 All the chip does is tweak the bios so that, given the right drivers, it'll see some init info. You absolutely have to look at the raid card specifications, especially for Dells.
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