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Install Serial ATA RAID Driver B-3
BIOS Setup for Serial ATA
RAID
This motherboard supports Striped (RAID 0)
and Mirrored (RAID 1) RAID set. For the
striped RAID set, the identical drives can read
and write data in parallel to increase
performance. The Mirrored RAID set creates a
complete backup of your files. Striped and
Mirrored RAID set requires 2 hard disks to do
so.
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, all the data stored in the hard disks will
first be erased! Please backup the hard disk data
before starting to create the RAID array.
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.
After you had selected the function from the
main menu, press the <
Enter
> key to enter the
sub menu as shown below:
•
Array Mode:
This item allows you to select the
appropriate RAID mode for the desired
array. There are two modes to choose.
When you choose a “Striped” or
“Mirrored” RAID set, the utility will ask
“Are You Sure?” before the Creating
RAID process. Press <Y> to confirm.
NOTE: It is highly recommended to attach hard
disks with the same model in reaching the
RAID performance.
Striping (RAID 0): This item is recommended
for high performance usage. Requires at least 2
disks.
Mirror (RAID 1):
This item is recommended
for data security usage. Requires at least 2
disks.
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