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7 Technotes
Intel
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Rapid Storage Technology
With Intel
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Rapid Storage Technology you can make use of the advantages of AHCI and RAID.
Through AHCI, storage performance is improved with Native Command Queuing (NCQ). AHCI also delivers longer battery life
with Link Power Management (LPM), which can reduce the power consumption of the chipset and Serial ATA (SATA) hard
drive.
By enabling Raid you have the possibilities of using Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5 and Raid 10.
RAID 0 uses the read/write capabilities of two or more hard drives working together to maximize storage performance. The hard
drives in a RAID 0 volume are combined to form one volume which appears as a single virtual drive to the operating system.
For example, four 120GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array will appear as a single 480GB hard drive to the operating system.
A RAID 1 array contains two hard drives where the data between the two is mirrored in real time. Because all of the data is
duplicated, the operating system treats the usable space of a RAID 1 array as the maximum size of one hard drive in the array.
For example, two 120GB hard drives in a RAID 1 array will appear as a single 120GB hard drive to the operating system.
A RAID 5 array is three or more hard drives with data divided into manageable blocks called strips. The main benefits of RAID
5 are storage capacity and data protection.
A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1 by forming a RAID 0 array from two RAID
1 arrays.
To select the Raid mode desired, enter setup and enable Raid by selecting Intel RST Premium in the Sata Mode Selection tab
(Chipset-PCHIO-SATA and RST Configuratio Submenu). Exit the setup with F4. System will restart. Enter Setup again.
Now, a new Submenu “Intel Rapid Storage Technology” appears under Advanced. Here you can configure your connected Raid
disks and select the raid mode. On Windows systems it is recommended to install the Intel
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Rapid Storage Device drivers.