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NOTE Chapter 9, “Implementing Mass Storage,” discusses RAID solutions

implemented in Windows.

Windows Disk Management is not the only software RAID game in town.

A number of third-party software programs work with Windows or other

operating systems.

Software RAID means the operating system is in charge of all RAID

functions. It works for small RAID solutions but tends to overwork your

operating system easily, creating slowdowns. When you really need to keep

going, when you need RAID that doesn’t even let the users know a problem

has occurred, hardware RAID is the answer.

NOTE See Chapter 9 for a thorough discussion of Storage Spaces, a

software RAID implementation available in Windows 8/8.1/10.

Hardware RAID centers on an intelligent controller that handles all of the

RAID functions (see Figure 8-21). Unlike regular PATA/SATA controllers,

these controllers have chips with their own processor and memory. This

allows the card or dedicated box, instead of the operating system, to handle

all of the work of implementing RAID.

Figure 8-21 Serial ATA RAID controller

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