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I've been asked to format and install Linux on the laptop, which has two 128gb SSDs. ASUS suggest RAID 0 is fast, so I want to setup the laptop, as is, but with Linux Mint installed.
https://www.asus.com/uk/Laptops/ASUS-ZenBook-UX301LA/
I've spent a good portion today looking at answers, which suggests hitting CTRL+i will get me into some sort of RAID configuration, however this doesn't work.
I have the following options configured within the BIOS:
- SATA mode -
RAID - Secure boot -
disabled - Fast boot -
disabled - Enable CSM -
enabled
Essentially, what is the RAID configuration tool provided with this laptop? Is it Intel's RST (Rapid Storage Technology), or is it something else? And how do I get into it.
steadweb
Posted 2018-07-26T16:59:38.493
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1Make a favor for yourself and never use RAID-0 if storage would have important data because if one drive would fail in such setup - you will loose everything. If cost of drives isn't a problem and data is more important then setup RAID-1(mirror), it will give you almost the same reading speed as RAID-0 and piece of mind. – Alex – 2018-07-26T17:17:00.587
Thanks Alex; yup, I understand the difference (and RAID-1 would be my preferred choice); however, getting to this setup seems either impossible or non-existent. – steadweb – 2018-07-26T18:04:39.597
What operation system system you going to use? For the last decade we switched almost all systems to software RAID instead of hardware based. The reason is - when you motherboard that has embedded RAID or separate card get failed - it's a huge trouble to restore data from disks. If you familiar with Unix based OS, then ZFS is most reliable filesystems with a lot of advantages that no1 other has. Windows also support software RAID and if you going to use mirrors it behaves the same way on reading as RAID-0 by reading data from different channels doubling reading speed. – Alex – 2018-07-26T18:34:45.027
Ideally Linux Mint, but we're open to options. I run a couple of Microservers at home, using FreeNAS, and utilise ZFS, I can also vouch for it. But I've never used ZFS for a desktop; does that work? I've read BTRFS works well with mint. – steadweb – 2018-07-27T12:15:24.020
ZFS is just a filesystem and works perfectly fine on desktop too. I didn't tried it personally on Mint but I think ZFSonLinux project is very active and Ubuntu (which in turn parent distro for Mint) even has in repositories compiled binaries for ZFS for distribution, so I don't think it is a problem. As about BTRFS, it is dead since redhat announced that they stop supporting it. – Alex – 2018-07-27T12:37:30.010