@DustinB3403 said in Is Intel VROC FakeRAID?:

@scottalanmiller

I'm not shocked.

Par for the course for Intel storage.

@scottalanmiller Thanks man!!! Review time.

@scottalanmiller said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@matteo-nunziati said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers"

There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell

Any that I've seen that are any good are convertibles (tower OR rack.)

Ya we have 20 z440s that are racked. But those are higher end workstations.

@momurda said in Issues Installing Fedora 25 on Intel FakeRAID Device on Asus RoG G701:

You could try the rawhide version of fedora, it is using 4.11 instead of 4.8.6

He tried the current alpha release, worked the same.

@anonymous said:

Does anyone make a cheap raid card?

Inexpensive raid card no. Inexpensive HBA card, yes.

@scottalanmiller said in What is FakeRAID?:

@Dashrender said in What is FakeRAID?:

Did this pop up again at SW?

Again today, too. Apparently Lenovo is selling FakeRAID on their "servers" now along with all of the other problems. Of course, if a machine has FakeRAID, it's not a server by any normal definition.

WOW... just wow - as if they couldn't fall any further, and they find a way...

Another factor that people forget with FakeRAID until it is too late... if your OS crashes your RAID is useless. With hardware RAID you can rebuild your RAID after a drive loss even when the system is offline. The datacenter people don't need to know if the OS is healthy, if it is on, etc. They can swap drives and let the RAID controller repair the array.

With FakeRAID there is no RAID until the OS works and is healthy. So even if you replace a drive, the array might be unable to repair itself.

Dealing with someone facing this problem right now. System crashed with the RAID array lost a drive and won't boot. Not the OS is having issues and there is no RAID at all.