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==== Why not use RAID built into my motherboard? ==== That is called ''“fake RAID.”'' Fake RAID is cancer. It is not “hardware” RAID, it is just software RAID by another name. When you create a RAID array using the garbage built into your motherboard, the RAID configuration is sometimes stored in a proprietary format that is only readable by that specific manufacturer’s RAID implementation. I used the word ''“sometimes”'' because it depends on your system. I have no idea what system you have. I want ALL of the people reading this to have a system that works if they transfer these drives to another system, not ''“some”'' of you. It costs you nothing to use <code>mdadm</code>, which offers certainty of compatibility when you transfer these drives to other hardware. When certainty & uncertainty have the same price, all other things being equal, I’ll take the certainty! MDADM software RAID is a standardized system that transfers across computers – I am not using hardware RAID, I am not using whatever RAID is in the BIOS of your computer, because I have no idea what they are using or whether it is something standard or something that will be aggravating later. If you have to take these drives and put them in another computer, there will be less hassle using software RAID than there is using hardware RAID, it’s literally plug and play ''(well, you may have to use a liveCD to run <code>grub-install</code> to register the bootloader with the new machine’s UEFI, but… The RAID part will work at least!).'' <span id="drive-recommendation-for-os"></span>
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