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 ...

RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks combines multiple disks into a single storage pool that the operating system views as a single drive. While enterprise systems use hardware RAID with a ...

I have 3 1 TB HDDs and 3 500 GB HDDs. Right now each size grouping is in a RAID 5, both of which are in an LVM volume group (with striped LVs). I'm finding this to be too slow for my usage on small ...