Hi Ken. It is not a matter of being faster or not; it would just be nice to have the possibility to clone easily such systems using CloneZilla (which has a ubuntu-based livecd) as I do with other systems in my network. Kind regards, Jürgen Depicker From: Ken Hansen <n2vip@verizon.net> To: "jurgen.depicker@let.be" <jurgen.depicker@let.be> Cc: "ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: 15/02/2011 14:23 Subject: Re: Intel matrix storage manager support? <hr noshade> I was under the impression that the 'fakeraid' on, for example, Intel motherboards was not significantly faster than more traditional software RAID, so there was little reason to maintain drivers that would enable the use of 'fakeraid' in a non-Windows system... Has this changed? Are the on-board Intel 'fakeraid' solutions faster than pure software RAID solutions? The Intel on-board RAID solutions always seemed designed more as marketing check-offs than an optimal solution to any particular storage issue, but I'll confess I haven't been following it that closely... Ken On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:10 AM, <a href=mailto:jurgen.depicker@let.be>jurgen.depicker@let.be</a> wrote: Dear all, As you may know, many Intel motherboards ship with a BIOS fakeraid (software raid). Presently, Ubuntu doesn't seem to know how to handle these, apparently due to mdadm being too old: