Drives can die at any time. Protect your data. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creating a software RAID 1 array in Linux takes ...

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

Ok, I have a 1tb drive and will be adding another. Can I create an array with one empty and one with data? will it mirror the other? I know that raid does not = backup but raid 1 plus an external ...