Richard
Does anyone have any opinions (really opening up here) between the MSI K7N2Delta ILSR motherboard and the Gigabyte 7N400 Pro? Both seem to be good by reviews. I am concerned with Gigabyte raid controller, though a Gigabyte rep. says they supply a Redhat linux driver with the supplied setup disk.
There's *nothing* in these cheap RAID controllers (sometimes called fakeRAID) that you can't achieve with the Linux software RAID driver, unless you want to run M$ on the same system. These controllers are not much more then simple ATA controllers with additional functionality in the BIOS. All of the RAID logic is implemented in the driver, i.e. in software. So if you only want to run Linux on the system, just use the controllers as normal ATA ones and let the Linux md (software RAID) driver do the work. Philipp