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NVIDIA RAID User’s Guide
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About NVIDIA RAID
Features and Benefits Summary
Features
Benefits
RAID across PATA and SATA
• Supports both Serial ATA and Parallel ATA disk
devices within a single RAID Array.
• Single set up procedure applies to all drives.
Spare Drive and Dedicated Drive
Support
• Allows the user to dedicate a "spare" disk as a hot
standby in the event of a array failure.
• Offers additional protection in case of a failure in a
mirrored array.
Bootable RAID
• Supports the use of a RAID drive for loading the
operating system at power up for optimal performance
Morphing
• Allows the user to upgrade for more performance,
security, and capacity.
• Allows the user to change the current state of a disk/
array to another array with a one step process called
"morphing", without losing any data during the
configuration change.
Disk Failure Identification
• Notifies the user when a disk fails and instructs you on
which one to replace