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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 73 points 6 months ago (22 children)

I am currently dual booting and trying to get feature parity in my Linux install as a reletave newbie.

So far the largest hurdle I've been able to solve was getting my RAID array recognized. That sent me down a rabbit hole.

To get it working in Linux I needed to:

  • switch from LMDE to Mint proper
  • add a PPA repository
  • install the RAID driver
  • manually edit my grub config file to ignore AHCI
  • run a command to apply the change
  • reboot
  • format the volume

To get it working in Windows I needed to:

  • format the volume(Windows gave me a popup with a single button to do this on login)
[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Are you using hardware RAID? yeah, that doesn't go too well with Linux... works perfectly in Windows though, cuz their softraid solutions are shit.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Server-level hardware RAID is fine on Linux. It has to, because manufacturers would cut out a huge chunk of their market if they didn't. Servers are moving away from that, though, and using filesystems with their own software RAID, like zfs.

Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn't work great on Linux, but it's also hot garbage that's software RAID with worse performance than the OS implementation could give you. I guess if you're dual booting, you'd have to do it that way since I don't think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It's still not great.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn't work great on Linux

That is what I actually meant.

I guess if you're dual booting, you'd have to do it that way since I don't think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It's still not great.

That's why you don't do RAID at all on a daily driver. You make/buy a NAS for that kind of thing. Maybe just RAID1 in hardware, cuz that's easy to set up and generally just works, even with low end hardware solutions.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

It's called FakeRAID for a reason.

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