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Guide to SATA Hard Disks

Installation and RAID Configuration

1.

Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2

1.1

Serial 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

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 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

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/ Vista

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64-bit With RAID Functions .................................... 6

2.4

Setting the BIOS RAID Items .................................. 7

2.5

Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS ............................. 7

2.6

Deleting RAID Volume .......................................... 11

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Страница 1: ...ial 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 RAID Functions 6 2 4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 7 2 5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 7 2 6 Deleting RAID Volume 11 ...

Страница 2: ...RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 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 ...

Страница 3: ...striping that optimizes 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 while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate WARNING Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance it does not p...

Страница 4: ...s RAID 1 and has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone RAID 10 achieves high input output rates by striping RAID 1 segments In some instances a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the ad...

Страница 5: ...isting 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 smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is...

Страница 6: ...older at 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 want to manage RAID functions you are allowed to use both RAID Installation Guide and Intel Rapid Storage Information for RAID configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide t...

Страница 7: ...ht 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 Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your computer Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press Ctrl I Press Ctrl I Then the Intel RAID Utility Create RAID Volume window appears Select the option Creat...

Страница 8: ...e 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 RAID 5 RAID 10 or Rapid Storage for your RAID level Press Enter and then you can select Strip Size Volume0 ...

Страница 9: ...he 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 performance disk usage After you set disk block size press Enter to set disk Capacity After setting up Capacity please press enter Volume0 ...

Страница 10: ...ter 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 RAID that you set up ...

Страница 11: ...press 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 partition please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS ...

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