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I bought a P5Q motherboard: <a href="http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2164&modelmenu=2" rel="ugc">http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2164&modelmenu=2</a><br />
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With the idea that it had RAID support as it says: &quot;Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5 10 support, Marvell® 88SE6111&quot;, Intel being a chip manufacturer it made sense that this was a hardware RAID. However, when I started to install Suse Enterprise (my first time installing Linux) it said that this was a software RAID and that it was not supported in the 2.6 Kernel.<br />
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Can someone shed some light on this as looking through the Intel and Asus websites they don't exactly make it easy to figure out what you are getting.<br />

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I bought a P5Q motherboard: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2164&modelmenu=2

With the idea that it had RAID support as it says: "Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5 10 support, Marvell® 88SE6111", Intel being a chip manufacturer it made sense that this was a hardware RAID. However, when I started to install Suse Enterprise (my first time installing Linux) it said that this was a software RAID and that it was not supported in the 2.6 Kernel.

Can someone shed some light on this as looking through the Intel and Asus websites they don't exactly make it easy to figure out what you are getting.


P5Q, RAID and Linux

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

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Hardware includes cell phones and other digital living devices, tablets, computers, servers, peripherals and components, printers and scanners, gaming consoles, networking hardware such as routers, hubs, switches and modems, storage devices and security equipment such as firewalls and other appliances.

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RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.