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Then, the below screen appears. Please enter Intel Matrix Storage Manager by clicking on Start All Programs Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Intel Matrix Storage Console. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console 1 After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Enter Intel Matrix Storage Manager RAID driver is built in Intel ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager 1.
Then, the below screen appears. Please enter Intel Matrix Storage Manager by clicking on Start All Programs Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Intel Matrix Storage Console. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console 1 After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Enter Intel Matrix Storage Manager RAID driver is built in Intel ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager 1.
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Please click Next to create a RAID volume. Create RAID Volume Select Action Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard pops up. 2. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console Then, Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive to continue. 2
Please click Next to create a RAID volume. Create RAID Volume Select Action Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard pops up. 2. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console Then, Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive to continue. 2
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... move the source disk that you need to key-in the Volume Name with 1-16 letters, select the RAID Level, and then set the Strip Size between 4KB and 128KB. To configure a new RAID volume, you plan to use to the Selected field, and then click Next to select the source disk...
... move the source disk that you need to key-in the Volume Name with 1-16 letters, select the RAID Level, and then set the Strip Size between 4KB and 128KB. To configure a new RAID volume, you plan to use to the Selected field, and then click Next to select the source disk...
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It is recommended you use the slider to continue. 5 You may enter the amount in the space or use 100% of available array space to be used by the new RAID volume. Then click Next to specify. Specify the amount of the available space for the optimized usage. Specify the Volume Size.
It is recommended you use the slider to continue. 5 You may enter the amount in the space or use 100% of available array space to be used by the new RAID volume. Then click Next to specify. Specify the amount of the available space for the optimized usage. Specify the Volume Size.
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It is critical that as long as you backup all important data before this operation cannot be undone. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console and select Show Migration Progress. 6 Start Creating RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard. Then, the migration process starts, which may take up to two hours to complete depending on the selected hard drive will be deleted and this step. Please note that you click Finish, the existing data on the size of the disks being used and the strip size selected.
It is critical that as long as you backup all important data before this operation cannot be undone. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console and select Show Migration Progress. 6 Start Creating RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard. Then, the migration process starts, which may take up to two hours to complete depending on the selected hard drive will be deleted and this step. Please note that you click Finish, the existing data on the size of the disks being used and the strip size selected.
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It uses RAID 1 (mirroring) functionality to copy data from a designated master drive to the recovery drive either continuously or on a system. When using the on request update policy, ...
It uses RAID 1 (mirroring) functionality to copy data from a designated master drive to the recovery drive either continuously or on a system. When using the on request update policy, ...
RAID Installation Guide
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2.3 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 11 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 11 2.6 Deleting RAID Volume 15 1
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2.3 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 11 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 11 2.6 Deleting RAID Volume 15 1
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... guide, please refer to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel ICH10R southbridge chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and Intel Matrix Storage. Guide to Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation of "User Manual" in this guide carefully according to create...
... guide, please refer to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel ICH10R southbridge chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and Intel Matrix Storage. Guide to Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation of "User Manual" in this guide carefully according to create...
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...of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as it does not provide any HDDs of RAID, and the guide to read and write data in the other drive if one logical unit. For optimal performance, please...install identical drives of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. RAID 0 (Data Striping) RAID 0 is called data striping that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Matrix Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it contains a complete...
...of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as it does not provide any HDDs of RAID, and the guide to read and write data in the other drive if one logical unit. For optimal performance, please...install identical drives of the data in parallel, interleaved stacks. RAID 0 (Data Striping) RAID 0 is called data striping that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Matrix Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it contains a complete...
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... database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for faulttolerance as RAID 1, and has the same overhead for this setup. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size ...This configuration has the same fault tolerance as mirroring alone. RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. Intel Matrix Storage The Intel Matrix Storage technology supported allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives. Among...
... database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for faulttolerance as RAID 1, and has the same overhead for this setup. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size ...This configuration has the same fault tolerance as mirroring alone. RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. Intel Matrix Storage The Intel Matrix Storage technology supported allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives. Among...
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... drive). For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for this RAID 0 set is 60GB. 3. For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity... (the new drive must be of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size. WARNING!! In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you use two SATA drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for...
... drive). For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for this RAID 0 set is 60GB. 3. For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity... (the new drive must be of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size. WARNING!! In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you use two SATA drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for...
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... ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press . Start to format and copy files [YN]? STEP 3: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set the option to [RAID]. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you will start to configure the RAID function, you want to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit on your SATA... the Support CD into the floppy drive, and press . Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the Support CD for boot devices selection appears. C. Please select CD-ROM as ", please set...
... ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press . Start to format and copy files [YN]? STEP 3: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set the option to [RAID]. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you will start to configure the RAID function, you want to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit on your SATA... the Support CD into the floppy drive, and press . Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the Support CD for boot devices selection appears. C. Please select CD-ROM as ", please set...
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...disk, the driver will be presented. 7 A "RAID Ready" system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5 at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information If you want to manage RAID functions, you install. The following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the folder at...® environment, please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the installation CD. 4. Begin Windows® setup by using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration, you can also set up system BIOS as step 2 of Windows® setup, press F6 to build an Intel...
...disk, the driver will be presented. 7 A "RAID Ready" system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5 at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information If you want to manage RAID functions, you install. The following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the folder at...® environment, please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the installation CD. 4. Begin Windows® setup by using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration, you can also set up system BIOS as step 2 of Windows® setup, press F6 to build an Intel...
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...to migrate the system to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5. 2.3.3 Migrating a "RAID Ready" System to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5 If you have an existing "RAID Ready" system, then you migrated to a RAID 0 volume, use the following steps to a two drive RAID 0, RAID 1 configuration or three drive RAID 5 configuration. Select the ... space created when the two hard drive capacities are combined. you install. This will activate the Create RAID volume from a single non-RAID configuration to perform a migration from Existing Hard Drive Wizard. This will install the necessary Intel Storage Utility...
...to migrate the system to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5. 2.3.3 Migrating a "RAID Ready" System to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5 If you have an existing "RAID Ready" system, then you migrated to a RAID 0 volume, use the following steps to a two drive RAID 0, RAID 1 configuration or three drive RAID 5 configuration. Select the ... space created when the two hard drive capacities are combined. you install. This will activate the Create RAID volume from a single non-RAID configuration to perform a migration from Existing Hard Drive Wizard. This will install the necessary Intel Storage Utility...
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...that, please insert Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive again to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information 9 When you see "Where...and "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information" for proper configuration. page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into the optical drive to [RAID]. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set the option to boot your system. Insert the Windows®...
...that, please insert Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive again to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information 9 When you see "Where...and "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information" for proper configuration. page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into the optical drive to [RAID]. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set the option to boot your system. Insert the Windows®...
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... set the option Configure SATA as to [RAID]. Please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before you to enter BIOS setup utility. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - Boot your RAID configuration. Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your change before setting your...
... set the option Configure SATA as to [RAID]. Please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before you to enter BIOS setup utility. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - Boot your RAID configuration. Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your change before setting your...
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Press , and then you can select Strip Size. 12 Volume0 Use the up or down arrow keys to select your RAID level. You may select RAID0 (Stripe), RAID1 (Mirror), RAID 5, RAID 10, or Matrix Storage for your RAID volume then press . Volume0 In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your desired RAID Level.
Press , and then you can select Strip Size. 12 Volume0 Use the up or down arrow keys to select your RAID level. You may select RAID0 (Stripe), RAID1 (Mirror), RAID 5, RAID 10, or Matrix Storage for your RAID volume then press . Volume0 In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your desired RAID Level.
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The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. • 8 /16 KB - performance disk usage After you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up Capacity, please press . 13 low disk usage • 64 KB - Volume0 If you set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage • 128 KB - Volume0 After setting up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press .The available values range from 8 KB to set disk Capacity. The default selection is 128 KB.
The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. • 8 /16 KB - performance disk usage After you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up Capacity, please press . 13 low disk usage • 64 KB - Volume0 If you set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage • 128 KB - Volume0 After setting up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press .The available values range from 8 KB to set disk Capacity. The default selection is 128 KB.
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After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up. 14 The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 Press to complete the setup of RAID.
After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up. 14 The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 Press to complete the setup of RAID.
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If you want to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 15 Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS. 2.6 Deleting RAID Volume If you want to create extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment.
If you want to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 15 Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS. 2.6 Deleting RAID Volume If you want to create extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment.