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3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration>
The board integrates Intel
®
ICH10DO with RAID function for Serial ATA II drives, and
supports the configurations below:
RAID 0 (S tripping) : Two ha rd driv es o perating as o ne drive for optimized data R/ W
performance. It needs two unused drives to build this operation.
RAID 1 (Mirroring) : Copies the data from first drive to second drive for data security, and if
one drive fails, the system would access the applications to the workable drive. It needs two
unused drives or one used and one unused drive to build this operation. The second drive
must be the same or lager size than first one.
RAID 5 (striping with parity)
A RAID 5 arra y c ontains three or more har d dr ives where the data is divid ed i nto
manageable blocks called strips. Parity is a mathematical method for recreating data th at
was lost from a single drive, which increases fault-tolerance. The data and parity are striped
across all the hard drives in the array. The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce
bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations.
RAID 10 (RAID 0+1)
A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1. The
data is striped across a two-drive array forming the RAID 0 compo nent. Each of the drive s
in the RAID 0 array is then mirrored by a RAID 1 component.
Intel Matrix Storage Technology : This technology would allow you to use RAID 0+1 mode
on only two drives (4 drives needed on traditional RAID 0+1). It will create two partitions on
each hard drive to simulate RAID 0 and RAID 1 . It also can let you modify the partition size
without re-formatted.
For more information of Intel Matrix Storage Technology, please visit Intel’s website.
If you need to inst all an op eration s ystem on the RAID s et, pleas e us e the driv er d isk
attached in the package when it informs you to obtain the RAID drivers.