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To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list.   

H. 

Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 

 

 

I. 

Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. 

The RAID 0 is created successfully.   

 

C.  Initializing NVRAID Array Disks 

Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted.   

A. 

Click on 

Start

 

 

Settings

 

 

Control Panel

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Страница 1: ...a 64 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 1 Installing Windows XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions 7 1 4 Create Disk Array 8 2 NVIDIA Windows RA...

Страница 2: ...1 Introduction to RAID The term RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit For optimal performance please insta...

Страница 3: ...processing relational database applications enterprise resource planning and other business systems Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup 1 2 RAID Configurations Precaution...

Страница 4: ...AID array WARNING Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions In the process you create RAID the system will ask if you want to Clear Disk Data or not It is recommended to select Ye...

Страница 5: ...ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack please choose the one for Windows XP XP 64 bit B During POST at the beginning of system boot up press F11 key and then a window for boot devices sel...

Страница 6: ...oller required STEP 3 Set Up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration B Set the SATA Operation Mode option to RAID STEP 4 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration...

Страница 7: ...upport CD for proper configuration Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD RAID Installation Guide STEP 3 Install Windows VistaTM...

Страница 8: ...ew seconds to press F10 before the window disappears After you press F10 the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window appears By default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring but please set it to Stripin...

Страница 9: ...s The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk A Tab to the Free Disks section The...

Страница 10: ...master slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc location columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists For example 1 0 M 1 Channel Typically channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drives whil...

Страница 11: ...ere are different installation procedures Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows XP XP 64 bit Users A Enter NVRAIDM...

Страница 12: ...the instruction in this section to create RAID arrays The RAID items which may be mentioned in this section are as below RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirroring JBOD Spanning RAID...

Страница 13: ...ase do the following A Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled B Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application C Create Array and the following...

Страница 14: ...row and select Striping and leave the Stripe Size with its default value as shown in the following screen shot F Click Next and the following screen shot will appear G Select the two disks that you wa...

Страница 15: ...and the following screen shot will appear I Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear The RAID 0 is created successfully C Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two disk array has...

Страница 16: ...creen is displayed E The 153 38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier To create a partition on it right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition F Follow the...

Страница 17: ...NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete assuming that you have a RAID array already created as shown in the following screen shot The above screen shot shows th...

Страница 18: ...ies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 RAID 0 1 as well as a RAID 5 For example assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fail then you need to replace the failed dri...

Страница 19: ...19 D Click Next The Disk Selection page appears E Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list then click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears...

Страница 20: ...irrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedicated Disk G Synchronizing a RAID Array Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity The operation is applicable to any fault...

Страница 21: ...ation Guide for Windows Vista Vista 64 bit Users A Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD After you finish the driver installation you can create del...

Страница 22: ...22 Click Create array Then you can start to build up RAID B Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear...

Страница 23: ...the type of RAID array to create You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next Here we take Striping RAID 0 for example to show you how to use Storage to create Striping RAID 0 If you plan to...

Страница 24: ...e RAID Mode you are allowed to select the Stripe Size The default value of this item is 64K Then click Next Select the disks to add to the new RAID array and click Next Select the disk with data to pr...

Страница 25: ...ps of creating RAID array C Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two disk array has been created it needs to be partitioned and formatted A Click on Start Settings Control Panel B Double click...

Страница 26: ...Right click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done you can start using the newly created stripped arr...

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