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If I am using (4) or fewer hard drives, should I use the onboard firmware controller or an add-in hardware controller card?

April 26, 2017add-in card controller fewer firmware Hard Drives hardware onboard

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If I am using (4) or fewer hard drives, should I use the onboard firmware controller or an add-in hardware controller card?

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The onboard firmware controller can support up to (4) SATA hard drives (as well as 2 IDE hard drives without RAID), however, it only offers RAID functionality under Windows, and it does not support RAID 5. If you use a different operating system, or require RAID 5, you will need a add-in hard drive controller.