System Installation
ROBO-8913VG2AR User’s Manual
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3.3.5 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Device
Drivers Support
Please find utility tool for Intel ICH9DO of ROBO-8913 CD-title.
The drivers support
Windows 2000/XP System 32-Bit & Windows XP System 64-bit.
Installing Serial ATA hard disks
The ROBO-8913 supports Six Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance,
install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array.
To install the SATA hard disks for a RAID configuration:
1. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays.
2. Connect the SATA signal cables.
3. Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive.
Intel RAID configurations
This ROBO-8913 supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID (0+1) and Intel® Matrix
Storage configurations for Serial ATA hard disks drives through the Intel ICH9DO
Southbridge chip.
RAID configurations
RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write
data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a
single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone,
thus improving data access and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives is
required for this setup.
RAID 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one
drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software
directs all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the
data in the other drive. This RAID configuration provides data protection and
increases fault tolerance to the entire system. Use two new drives or use an existing
drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be of the same size or
larger than the existing drive.
RAID 10 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy
data) having to be calculated and written. With the RAID 10 configuration you get
all the benefits of both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. Use four new hard disk
drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for this setup.
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