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Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1.1

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Summary of Contents for Veriton M661

Page 1: ...Guide Acer Incorporated Version v1 1 Date August 2007 This document contains proprietary technical information which is the property of the Acer Incorporated and shall not be disclosed to others in whole or in part reproduced copied or used as the basis for design manufacturing or sale of apparatus without written permission of Acer Incorporated ...

Page 2: ...Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 2 21 Revision History Rev Date Explanation of Change Approved by 1 0 2007 08 15 First release 1 1 2007 8 22 Format and spelling enhancement ...

Page 3: ...G MIRRORING 7 3 WARNINGS AND REMINDERS 9 4 ENABLING THE RAID FUNCTION WITH INTEL MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER CONSOLE 10 5 CONFIGURING RAID0 OR RAID1 ON YOUR RAID READY ACER PC 17 6 CONFIGURING AN EXISTING HDD AS A RAID0 OR RAID1 VOLUME 18 7 MIGRATING FROM RAID0 1 10 TO RAID5 SYSTEM 19 8 PRE INSTALLATION OF THE INTEL MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER DRIVER 20 8 1 BUILD THE RAID DRIVER ON A FLOPPY DISK 20 8 2 PRE ...

Page 4: ...ID compatible products Selected high end Acer desktop systems are configured as Intel RAID Ready systems A RAID Ready system can be upgraded to RAID0 RAID1 RAID5 or RAID10 using the RAID migration feature built into Intel Matrix Storage Manager 7 5 This technology enables you to install additional SATA hard drives and then migrate a RAID Ready configuration to a RAID0 RAID1 RAID5 or RAID10 configu...

Page 5: ...Multiple files can be read and written simultaneously and transfer time is improved dramatically thus increasing throughput RAID0 volume capacity number of HDDs x capacity of smallest HDD RAID0 can be created with disks of differing sizes but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk For example if a 120 GB disk is striped together with a 100 GB ...

Page 6: ...pacity of smallest HDD Such an array can only be as large as the smallest member disk B lo c k 4 P h y s ic a l d is k s 1 2 0 G B P h y s ic a l d is k s 1 2 0 G B L o g ic a l d is k s 1 2 0 G B P h y s ic a l d is k s L o g ic a l d is k B lo c k 3 B lo c k 1 B lo c k 2 B lo c k 4 B lo c k 3 B lo c k 1 B lo c k 2 B lo c k 4 B lo c k 3 B lo c k 1 B lo c k 2 D is k 1 D is k 2 R A ID 1 RAID5 strip...

Page 7: ...ty 2 x capacity of smallest HDD Physical disks 120 GB BlockA5 BlockA3 BlockA1 BlockA5 BlockA3 BlockA1 BlockA6 BlockA4 BlockA2 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 BlockA6 BlockA4 BlockA2 Disk 4 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 0 Physical disks 120 GB Physical disks 120 GB Logical disks 240 GB Physical disks 120 GB Characteristics Advantages Disadvantages RAID0 RAID0 implements a striped disk array the data is broken down into ...

Page 8: ... drive failures Simplest RAID storage subsystem design Highest disk overhead of all RAID types 100 inefficient May not support hot swap of failed disk when implemented using software RAID RAID5 Highest Read data transaction rate Medium Write data transaction rate Low ratio of ECC parity disks to data disks means high efficiency Good aggregate transfer rate Most complex controller design Difficult ...

Page 9: ...hutdown auto hibernate and auto standby Plug your system into an AC adapter before attempting to enable RAID on your system C Enabling RAID may change how your hard disk drives are ordered and Acer eRecovery Management may not function properly if your system does not have the needed drive ordering D You cannot use Acer eRecovery Management to revert your system to a non RAID configuration after e...

Page 10: ...ed Veriton PC V1 1 10 21 4 Enabling the RAID function with Intel Matrix Storage Manager Console 1 Select Intel Matrix Storage from Start menu Intel Matrix Storage Console Intel Matrix Storage Console 2 The Console will show current SATA HDD connection status ...

Page 11: ...Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 11 21 3 Select Actions to create a RAID Volume 4 Follow the wizard to click Next ...

Page 12: ...Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 12 21 5 Select the RAID type you want to build up 6 Select the SATA HDDs you want to build up RAID volume on 7 To build a RAID0 1 volume requires at least two SATA HDDs ...

Page 13: ...Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 13 21 8 Select the source HDD first 9 Select Member HDD Member HDD should be the same size or larger than the Source HDD ...

Page 14: ...Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 14 21 10 Specify RAID Volume size 11 Click Finish to complete setup ...

Page 15: ...Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 15 21 12 System will start to build the RAID volume 13 You can check the RAID volume status after RAID build completes ...

Page 16: ...x Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1 1 16 21 14 For more information refer to the online user manual Select Help Contents and Index 15 Click on a link to refer to the information you want ...

Page 17: ... available SATA port 3 Boot Windows then install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software if not already installed it is pre installed in Acer RAID Ready systems using the setup package obtained from a CD ROM or from the Internet This will install the necessary Intel Matrix Storage Console and start menu links 4 Open the Intel Matrix Storage Manager from the Start Menu and select Create RAID Volu...

Page 18: ...sole and do the following 1 Note the serial number of the SATA hard drive that is already installed You will need this to select it as the source hard drive when initiating the migration 2 Physically attach the second SATA hard drive to an available SATA port 3 Boot to Windows install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software if not already installed it is pre installed in Acer RAID Ready systems ...

Page 19: ...ive requirements for the new RAID5 configuration have to be met Please follow the procedure illustrated below 1 Boot the system to Windows 2 Start the Intel Matrix Storage Console application Start Menu All Programs Intel Matrix Storage Manager Intel Matrix Storage Console 3 Click the View menu and select the Advanced Mode option 4 Choose the RAID volume you want to migrate Right click and select ...

Page 20: ...it operating system to your local drive 2 Double click on the application A dialog box prompting you to Insert floppy to write will appear 3 Insert a blank floppy into floppy drive and click OK to proceed 4 The application will perform the following tasks a Format the disk b Write data to the disk c Verify data on the disk 5 After the task is done About Self Extractor for WinImage will be displaye...

Page 21: ...82801HEM SATA RAID Controller ICH9M E when the system is in RAID mode and Intel 82801HEM SATA AHCI Controller ICH9M E or Intel 82801HBM SATA AHCI Controller ICH9M when the system is in AHCI mode 7 Select the appropriate Intel RAID controller and press ENTER 8 The next screen should confirm that the user has selected the Intel RAID controller Press ENTER again to continue 9 After successfully insta...

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