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Most traditional RAID setups in the real world are hardware-based.

Almost all of the many hardware RAID solutions provide hot-swapping—the

ability to replace a bad drive without disturbing the operating system. Hotswapping

is common in hardware RAID.

Hardware-based RAID is invisible to the operating system and is

configured in several ways, depending on the specific chips involved. Most

RAID systems have a special configuration utility in Flash ROM that you

access after CMOS but before the OS loads. Figure 8-22 shows a typical

firmware program used to configure a hardware RAID solution.

Figure 8-22 RAID configuration utility

SIM Check out the Chapter 8 Challenge! sim, “Storage Solution,” to

examine best RAID practices at http://totalsem.com/100x.

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