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Install Silicon Serial ATA RAID Driver (KV8-MAX3) F-3
BIOS Setup for Silicon Serial
ATA RAID
This motherboard supports the RAID operation
of “
Striping (RAID 0) ”, “ Mirroring (RAID
1) ”, or “ Striping/Mirroring (RAID 0+1) ” via
Silicon Serial ATA controller. For the striping
operation, the identical drives can read and
write data in parallel to increase system
performance. The Mirroring operation creates a
complete backup of your files. Striping with
Mirroring operation offers both read/write
performance and fault tolerance.
RAID Configuration Utility
Menu
Main Menu
Reboot your system. Press < CTRL > + < S > or
< F4 > key while booting up the system to enter
the BIOS setting menu. The main menu of
BIOS Setting Utility appears as shown below:
To select the option in this menu, you may:
•
Press <
↑↓
> (up, down arrow) to
choose the option you want to confirm or
to modify.
•
Press < Enter > to confirm the selection.
•
Press <
Esc
> to return to previous menu.
•
Press <
Ctrl-E
> to exit the RAID
configuration utility.
NOTE: If you want to create a RAID 0 (striping)
array or RAID 0+1 array, all the data stored in
the hard disks will first be erased! Please
backup the hard disk data before starting to
create these RAID arrays.
If you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array,
please make sure which hard disk is the source
disk and which one is the destination disk. If
you make a mistake, you may copy the blank
data to the source disk, which will result in both
hard disks becoming blank!
Option 1
Create RAID set
This item allows you to create a RAID array.
NOTE: It is highly recommended to attach hard
disks with the same model in reaching the
RAID performance.
RAID0: This item is recommended for high
performance usage. Requires at least 2 disks.
RAID1: This item is recommended for data
security
usage. Requires at least 2 disks.
RAID10:
This item is recommended for
data
security and high performance usage. Allows
Mirroring with a Strip Array. Require 4 disks.
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