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RAID. Windows vs Mobo

KWelz
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Kind of like the title says.  What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting up a RAID in Windows 8.1 vs the Raid controller on a Maximus VI Formula?

 

 

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Kind of like the title says.  What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting up a RAID in Windows 8.1 vs the Raid controller on a Maximus VI Formula?

In my experience, running a raid through Windows is better, as it doesn't have to initialize.

 

I could be wrong though. 

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One is hardware RAID, the other is software. I prefer hardware, since it runs on it's own controller chip (eventually supported by CPU) while software RAID runs in the background of windows, and therefore fully on your CPU (taking more resources away that you could use for other things.)

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Actually, you're being recursive. Windows doesn't do RAID. Your RAID ability comes from the m/bd and the Intel/AMD chipset. If you do not have RAID capability on your m/bd you can't do RAID. This means that the UEFI presents the volume to the O/S without the O/S having any input.

 

This does change with MS Server but that's not the subject today.

 

The chipset iteration of RAID is considered a software implementation. A hardware RAID is on a card. It can be a dedicated RAID card or just RAID chips on a drive. It is much more expensive but vastly more reliable and faster than the software versions.

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Actually, you're being recursive. Windows doesn't do RAID. Your RAID ability comes from the m/bd and the Intel/AMD chipset. If you do not have RAID capability on your m/bd you can't do RAID. 

 

 

Not true. You can setup "RAID" (windows has different naming.... stripe/mirror/etc)  in windows regardless of the MB.  The raid functionality you get from your motherboard is different than setting it up in windows. A RAID volume setup on the MB's controller would present itself to the OS as one drive. 

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Oops, my bad. That's new functionality for Win8. Before that was only available in Server. I stand corrected.

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Oops, my bad. That's new functionality for Win8. Before that was only available in Server. I stand corrected.

 

Nope. Windows 7 (Professional or upwards also had an option for software RAID, if I remember correctly)

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