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I had never considered RAID1 in the past, but after recent Seagate 1TB drive failure, I think it's a good idea for me to consider RAID1.
I have a few basic RAID questions that are kind of hard to find detailed answers on.
I have a few basic RAID questions that are kind of hard to find detailed answers on.
- The RAID that comes on a motherboard, that's considered software RAID, correct?
- Software RAID would be a RAID system handled by the drivers, so would therefore put a load on the CPU?
- A system with a very weak CPU would be better off with hardware RAID, correct?
- How much of a hit does the CPU take on a software RAID on a modern AMD or Intel chipset?
- I have read that RAID1 with a proprietary NAS, if the NAS hardware fails but drives are still fine, you will still have difficulty recovering data from the drives. How about if the RAID hardware is a regular PC, for example, an Intel H61 chipset running Windows? If the computer fails, can I just take one of the mirrored drives and hook it up via eSATA to another PC and read the disks as normal? Or do I need to get another Intel chipset board and set it up with OS and RAID driver to read the disks?
- Similar to the above, if I had a hardware RAID SATA card and the card dies, do I need to buy the same card in order to read my disks?
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