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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation

1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation

Intel P55 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID

functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and Intel

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 SATA ports.

Summary of Contents for SATA HARD DISKS

Page 1: ...ATA 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 Wit...

Page 2: ...l 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...

Page 3: ...ta 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...

Page 4: ...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 mult...

Page 5: ...sting 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...

Page 6: ...y 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 f...

Page 7: ...teps 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...

Page 8: ...t 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 H...

Page 9: ...llow 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...

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: ...ht 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 In...

Page 12: ...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...

Page 13: ...he 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 p...

Page 14: ...er 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 R...

Page 15: ...ress 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 part...