Linux Mint

Add RAID support to the installer

Registered by Matthew Caron

In the Ubuntu alternate installer, you can set up and install to RAID arrays. Mint should do this as well, since RAID is so commonplace in desktop environments.

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SSD Accelleration for Hard disks (which is also a RAID):
Intel Whitepaper on how to use Intel "Rapid Storage Technology" with Linux
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/rst-linux-paper.pdf

The Qiana installer doesn't find a RST RAID consisting of HDD + SSD cache.
It sould be great benefit to have this installer support.

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