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Appendix II: SATA RAID 0/1 Setup
a sophisticated disk management system that manages multiple disk drives,
mance and providing redundancy in order to prevent the loss of data in case any
The SATA RAID facility on this board provides RAID 0 (striped), RAID
) and RAID SPAN.
)
ant disk storage technology. With RAID striping,
sks are used to form a larger virtual disk. Data is then striped or mapped across all the
ed to perform
parallel, enhancing performance. While Striping is discussed as a RAID
et type, it actually does not provide fault tolerance.
g (RAID 1)
nt disk that mirrors the main disk. Data that is written to the
ult tolerant protection
/write failure occurs on one drive, the system can still read and
rite data using the other drive.
owever considered a JBOD (Just Bundle
) configuration which simply uses multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk without any
nality.
IOS Configuration
Power-On Self Test), the user will be given an
hen press the “Tab” key to enter the VIA RAID BIOS Configuration utility. The VIA RAID BIOS
as shown below.
Introduction to RAID
(Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
RAID technology is
enhancing I/O perfor
idual disks fail.
of the indiv
1 (mirrored
Disk Striping (RAID 0
a performance-oriented, non-redund
Striping is
multiple di
physical disks. In this way modern SATA and ATA bus mastering technology can be us
multiple I/O operations in
S
Disk Mirrorin
With Disk Mirroring there is a redunda
main disk is also written to the redundant disk. This redundancy provides fa
from a single disk failure. If a read
w
RAID SPAN
RAID SPAN is not one of the standard RAID levels. It is h
Of Disks
other specialized disk management functio
RAID B
When the system boots up during the POST (
opportunity to enter the “VIA RAID BIOS Configuration” utility. Wait for the following prompt:
Press <Tab> Key into User Window
T
screen will display
