<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>Setting:</div><div>We are setting up a low usage server for an alfresco km/collaboration system</div><div>It is a low-end server with a pair of 1.5 TB disks we will be mirroring</div><div>The server comes with Intel's on-board 'fake raid/ low-end RAID' capability and for price reasons we have not selected a mainstream RAID card</div><div><br></div><div>Prior thoughts:</div><div>Searches on the net indicate no performance advantage, and possible performance disadvantages to the on-board RAID</div><div>I expect Intel & the Centos product to be rough equivalents in quality</div><div><br></div><div>I am leaning to software RAID for a simple reason of minimizing my administration & operational burden. If I need to perform repairs, obtain alerts it is the same administration toolset rather than a BIOS-based tool that seems to be accessible only through boot/ reboot.</div><div><br></div><div>Question:</div><div>Over a reasonable lifecycle are we better served going with the on-board or Centos' software RAID?</div><div>Any issue with booting from the RAID (obviously RAID 1)?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div></body></html>