>> My dad went with a hardware RAID solution, and it was utterly useless. 
>> You had to resilver it every few hours because it kept breaking.
> 
> Hardware RAID on a desktop machine? Hardware raid controllers are 
> exceedingly expensive. Are you sure it wasn't RAID implemented in the 
> firmware/drivers?
> That's far more common on desktop-type machines. It's what I've got in 
> my 'server'

Didn't require any special drivers for the OS - it just looked like a 
regular IDE device. But could quite well be something to do with the 


You'll be unsurprised to hear that he quickly threw it away...

I understand that Linux can do software RAID if you have the right 
kernel. Some versions of Windows can too - but IIRC not the desktop 
editions? It's not something I've ever really looked at. For me, RAID is 
something you only need on mission-critical servers, not desktop 
machines and certainly not home PCs. ;-)

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