>
> One of the major advantages of RAID 1 is that you can take one of the
> disks, at any time, and plug it in somewhere else with no RAID card,
> and it'll work fine.  RAID configuration is held at the very end of
> the disk for all the controllers I've worked with, so really trying to
> find the exact same MB or chipset or controller card is a non-issue.
>
> RAID 1 means the drives are cloned to each other, and except for
> configuration data are just as bootable and usable alone as they are
> under the array.
>

Thanks for all the replies.  It is too good to believe that the RAID
controller is on the cheap motherboard.  All the while, I thought RAID
enabling shall be prohibitive expensive, and it shall need additional
hardware.  According to the manual, the controller can do RAID 0, 1 or 2 on
SATA drive.   Just hope the info is accurate and the end result stable.

Now there is no reason not to upgrade the drives - much more capacity and
added important features.  The power of Morre's law always frightens me.

Cheers, Ling SM
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