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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation

1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation

Intel H

7 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID

functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1 and Intel Rapid Storage. Please

read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully. 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 Vision HT

Page 1: ...al ATA 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 With RAI...

Page 2: ...luding RAID 0 RAID 1 and Intel Rapid Storage Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices For SATA insta...

Page 3: ...timizes 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...

Page 4: ...RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets This techno...

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: ...the following path RAID Installation Guide STEP 3 Install Windows 7 7 64 bit VistaTM VistaTM 64 bit OS on your system After the installation of Windows 7 7 64 bit VistaTM VistaTM 64 bit OS if you wan...

Page 7: ...t 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 Int...

Page 8: ...a unique 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 or Rapid Storage for your...

Page 9: ...e 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 pe...

Page 10: ...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 11: ...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...