>   
>> For raid 1 I wouldn't agree with you we have had several problems on our
>> system with data glitches or drive failures its always been a simple
>> matter of taking the drive out and putting it into another pc to clone
>> it just in case before placing back in the original pc  with a new drive
>> so that the mirror can be rebuilt . Its always worked. and this is
>> between different chipsets or add-in raid cards.
>>     
>
> Some say this works, some say it doesn't. Does anybody have something
> conclusive? In the end, you probably should try it if you want to use
> hardware RAID1, and take one of the drives and try to boot from it.
>
> Gerhard
>
>   
If its cheap motherboard bios raid then its software raid anyway, your 
probably better off using software raid and guaranteeing the compatibility.
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