Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
* Sometimes the term refers to controllers where the OS driver
and card's on-board flash BIOS provide 100 percent of the RAID
capability. This is called software RAID, or less flatteringly, fake
RAID.
Really? AFAIK a fake RAID is considered a RAID controller that doesn't
have its own CPU and RAM, but uses resources of the main system.
Software RAID is when the OS itself performs the RAID functions
regardless if there is a RAID controller or not. As long as you have
(ideally) two identical drives, you can create a software RAID on any
system.
David
