IEI Technology ROCKY-6614, User Manual

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E.1 Introduction
E.1.1 RAID Support
The SiS964 southbridge chipset integrated controller supports the following three SATA
RAID levels:
JBOD
RAID0
RAID1
E.1.2 What is RAID
RAID, or redundant array of inexpensive disks, is a method of saving data on multiple disks
so that if one of the disks is damaged or destroyed, the data on the disks will not be lost.
Although there are more RAID levels than those mentioned above, only the three RAID
levels mentioned above can be implemented on your system
JBOD stands for Just a Bunch Of Disks. This is not a RAID level and if
any thing happens to one hard drive, all the information on that drive will
be lost.
RAID0 refers to disk striping. That is, data is distributed (striped) over
multiple disks. This increases the overall disk performance but the data is
not redundantly stored and therefore any damage to the system disks will
result in a loss of information.
RAID1 refers to disk mirroring. The information on one disk is completely
mirrored onto a second disk. That means the effective storage capacity of
your hard disks is halved but the data on the disks is safe. If one of the
disks is destroyed or damaged in any way the information on that disk can
be retrieved from the second disk.
E.2 RAID Setup
E.2.1 Introduction
To setup the RAID, the following procedures must be completed.
Step 1:
Two SATA drives must be installed onto the system.