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Modules
Setting Up SATA RAID Mode 7 - 3
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Prepare the following before setting up your serial ATA hard disks in RAID mode:
1. The Microsoft Windows 7 OS DVD .
2. A second (identical) hard disk installed in the Primary HDD bay.
OR
A
second (identical) hard disk installed in the Primary HDD bay, and a third
(identical) hard disk in the Secondary HDD bay if required.
3. The Device Drivers & Uti User’s Manual disc.
RAID Level Description
RAID 0
Identical drives reading and writing data in parallel to increase performance . RAID 0
implements a striped disk array and the data is broken into blocks and each block is
written to a separate disk drive.
RAID 1
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used to protect data . Should a drive that is
part of a mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) will
handle all the data. When a new replacement drive is installed, data to the new drive is
rebuilt from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
RAID 5
Identical drives (at least three drives must be used) in a parity across disks
configuration are used to protect data and increase performance . A RAID 5 array
can withstand a single disk failure without losing access to data.
Recovery
Two Identical drives copying data between a master and a recovery disk. This provides
more control over how data is copied between the master and recovery drives, fast
volume updates and the ability to view the data in
Windows Explorer .
Table 7 - 1
RAID Levels
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Array Types
A Mirrored Array
( RAID 1 ) provides full
data protection, as
data can simply be
copied from a healthy
disk to a replacement
for any failed disk.
A Striped Array
( RAID 0 ) is NOT fault-
tolerant. The failure of
one drive will result in
the loss of all data in
the array. It is de-
signed to increase disk
performance by
spreading the I/O load
across the channels
and drives.
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