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> Which is what I've done when installing Linux. Am I losing performance? Power efficiency? Features? From what I read a year ago before doing this, you don't
by hvis 6y ago
> Which is what I've done when installing Linux. Am I losing performance? Power efficiency? Features?
From what I read a year ago before doing this, you don't lose much, and software-based RAID (if you go for that sort of thing) in GNU/Linux is just as efficient/reliable, and maybe more so. And anyway, if you only have one HDD/SSD, there is no point in RAID.
> It also makes dual booting trickier if you don't plan it beforehand.
I don't think so: installing Windows will work just the same with Intel's RAID turned off.
- qwerty456127 6y ago> And anyway, if you only have one HDD/SSD, there is no point in RAID. Obviously. But why did they care to equip this laptop with the RAID by default?
- hvis 6y agoApparently, Intel's RST is not just RAID, but it's also supposed to help when a laptop is equipped with two storage devices, one small and fast (SSD) and another big but slower (HDD): https://superuser.com/a/1578326 https://superuser.com/a/1578326 IIRC there were Dell XPS models like that in the lower price segment. Never tried one personally.