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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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