As I recall, They have supported raid 0 and/or 1 since some editions of windows XP.
Same thing on Windows 7 (that may be limited to the pro/entreprise editions)
Since windows server 2012. The OS has "storage spaces" which is a full management solution for RAID and volumes and physical disks. It's somewhat similar to the ZFS/zpool/mdraid/dmcrypt tooling, EXCEPT it's all in a single software, unified, way easier to use and with a nice GUI.
IMO. Software raid and disk management is utter shit on Linux. They are easily lagging > 10 years behind but that's just my point of view.
Actually the underlying interfaces are for the largest part sane; and what's more are much easier configure from the command line (and use git or whatever source control, or devops tools). The only area where the Linux side is not easier is for first time or very occasional users who want an easy GUI with native bling to configure things with.
Make a simple search on google on "how to resize a partition on linux" and you get ten tutorials, all of which give different steps, none of which work.
There are at least 7 different tools for managing disks on linux most of which vary by distribution and version: fdisk, mkfs, partx, parted, growpart, mdraid, dmcrypt...
Little story: The auto extending of partitions on boot (i.e. a critical thing in cloud environment) has been broken in debian stable for more than 6 months.
It's calling "growpart" that is calling other tools, one of which is "partx". Some flags are changing between versions and it breaks the whole toolchain, unless all software versions are carefully selected.
We could continue on why do some of the tools only accept cylinder and block counts as size??? or why is gparted a terrible GUI for managing disks.
Same thing on Windows 7 (that may be limited to the pro/entreprise editions)
Since windows server 2012. The OS has "storage spaces" which is a full management solution for RAID and volumes and physical disks. It's somewhat similar to the ZFS/zpool/mdraid/dmcrypt tooling, EXCEPT it's all in a single software, unified, way easier to use and with a nice GUI.
IMO. Software raid and disk management is utter shit on Linux. They are easily lagging > 10 years behind but that's just my point of view.