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• Creating A Dual-Boot System On RAID10 (Ubuntu/Windows)

  Author: theos • Tags: ubuntu, storage • Comments: 6

  Creating A Dual-Boot System On RAID10 (Ubuntu/Windows) I just bought a new computer and I want to run Ubuntu 8.10 and Vista. I'm really afraid to loose some of my data when a harddrive dies, so I decided to go for a RAID10-setup. Most modern motherboards support RAID0,1,5 and 10. After assembling my new computer, I discovered that the motherboard didn't have a true hardware-RAID-controller. Instead it's just software-RAID, sometimes called fakeraid. If I was installing a Linux-only-system, I wouldn't care and just use the Linux software-Raid options. But this time, my system has to be dual-boot.

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