Issue : I was sorely disappointed when I was exposed to how poor "RAID" is on commodity motherboards (like ASUS and Gigabyte). I had not put much thought into exactly what it meant when they claimed they had SATA RAID. This whole epiphany was the result of when I had installed RHEL (or Fedora, I can't recall) on a system with a 1TB drive. Fortunately the drive that was headed for certain doom, failed shortly after the install. No big deal, right? I'll just throw another drive in and it should take off... somehow? Well, not even close, actually. fakeRAID is the term I see used in referencing this setup. There most likely is some benefit to this approach when using Windows and the overlying fakeRAID software components. It would seem that you could boot the system from one of the 2 mirrors and start the fakeRAID software and inform it that a replacement drive was installed. There may also be some sort of performance improvement using this stack....
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.