P67 motherboards and RAID

[cochoc]

Probably a stupid question, but it would be nice to get it confirmed.

A lot of the research I've done on RAID seems to suggest that separate PCI-E RAID cards are recommended for RAID setups, but I can see that most motherboards (mid-high end) seem to have RAID controllers on board.

Is it correct to assume that the current crop of Sandybridge motherboards contain everything needed to connect two or more SATA drives in a RAID configuration on board without the need for extra hardware. Also, would this be termed a hardware RAID setup and not a software solution?

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

 

[matthab]

Yes the P67 includes the ICH10 chip. It is known as a software/onboard solution. It is perfectly acceptable for RAID0 and 1. Anything else like RAID5 - 0+1 is better on a hardware card.

 

[cochoc]

Yes the P67 includes the ICH10 chip. It is known as a software/onboard solution. It is perfectly acceptable for RAID0 and 1. Anything else like RAID5 - 0+1 is better on a hardware card.

Thanks for that. I still need to do some further research into whether it's worth the faff of having RAID against 3 hd's.