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Guide to SATA Hard Disks

Installation and RAID Configuration

Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2

1.1

Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ............... 2

Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 3

2.1

Introduction of RAID ............................................... 3

2.2

RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 5

2.3

Installing Windows

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

Vista

64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions 6

2.4

Setting the BIOS RAID Items ................................ 11

2.5

Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS ........................... 11

2.6

Deleting RAID Volume .......................................... 15

Summary of Contents for H67DE3

Page 1: ...SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 2 Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2 1 Introduction of RAID 3 2 2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2 3 Installing Windows 7 7 64 bit VistaTM VistaTM 64 bit XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions 6 2 4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 11 2 5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 11 2 6 Deleting RAID Volume 15 ...

Page 2: ...el Rapid Storage Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices For SATA installation guide please refer to Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation of User Manual in the support CD This section will guide you how to create RAID on SAT...

Page 3: ...ata striping that optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel interleaved stacks It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate WARNING Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance it does n...

Page 4: ...s RAID 1 and has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone RAID 10 achieves high input output rates by striping RAID 1 segments In some instances a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the ad...

Page 5: ...isting drive and a new drive to create a RAID 1 mirroring array for data protection the new drive must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is...

Page 6: ...py drive WARNING Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it Start to format and copy files YN Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press Y E The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette STEP 3 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure the RAID function you need t...

Page 7: ...steps outline how to build an Intel RAID Ready system 1 Assemble the system and attach a single SATA SATAII hard drive 2 Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 6 When done exit Setup 3 Make a SATA SATAII driver diskette as step 2 of page 6 Begin Windows setup by booting from the installation CD 4 At the beginning of Windows setup press F6 to install a third party RAID driver When prompted insert the...

Page 8: ...rt menu links 3 Open the Intel Storage Utility from the Start Menu and select Create RAID volume from Existing Hard Drive from the Actions menu This will activate the Create RAID volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard Click through the dialogs as prompted It s important to understand what will occur during the migration process because any data on the destination hard drive will be lost 4 Once the...

Page 9: ...ollow the instruction to install Windows 7 7 64 bit VistaTM VistaTM 64 bit OS on your system When you see Where do you want to install Windows page please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive and click the Load Driver button on the left on the bottom to load the Intel RAID drivers Intel RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD I386 For Windows VistaTM OS AMD64 For W...

Page 10: ...10 If you want to use Intel Rapid Storage in Windows environment please install SATA SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that Intel Rapid Storage will be installed to your system as well ...

Page 11: ...ght Advanced and press Enter then the main interface of BIOS setup utility will appear Please set the option Configure SATA as to RAID Save your change before you exit BIOS setup 2 5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your computer Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press Ctrl I Press Ctrl I Then the Intel RAID Utility Create RAID Volume window appears Select the option Crea...

Page 12: ...e name with 1 16 letters for your RAID volume then press Enter Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level You may select RAID0 Stripe RAID1 Mirror RAID 5 RAID 10 or Matrix Storage for your RAID level Press Enter and then you can select Strip Size Volume0 ...

Page 13: ...The available values range from 8 KB to 128 KB The default selection is 128 KB The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage 8 16 KB low disk usage 64 KB typical disk usage 128 KB performance disk usage After you set disk block size press Enter to set disk Capacity After setting up Capacity please press enter Volume0 ...

Page 14: ...ter under the Create Volume item The utility prompts a confirmation message as below Volume0 Press Y to complete the setup of RAID After the completion you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up ...

Page 15: ...press Enter and then follow the instructions on the screen Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment If you want to create extra RAID partition please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS ...

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