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..." to build RAID 0 or RAID 1 in the near future. For the new version RST driver, please check our website for the latest information: http://www.asrock.com * Before you use Enhanced or Maximized Mode. 6. When pop-up menu appears, chose which SSD you wish to use as the Cache device, which...
..." to build RAID 0 or RAID 1 in the near future. For the new version RST driver, please check our website for the latest information: http://www.asrock.com * Before you use Enhanced or Maximized Mode. 6. When pop-up menu appears, chose which SSD you wish to use as the Cache device, which...
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Reboot the system and cache setup is complete. Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or Full Disk Capacity for Cache Volume. Your GUI window will now change to Accelerate. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Click on "Enable Acceleration" button on tray icon or open through RST GUI: 1. The "System View" area (Green) now shows the SSD broken up as a Cache Volume and the spare capacity volume (Yellow) if applicable. Select which disk/volume you want to look like this. Click "OK" button. 3. Enhanced or Maximized Mode. Open ...
Reboot the system and cache setup is complete. Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or Full Disk Capacity for Cache Volume. Your GUI window will now change to Accelerate. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Click on "Enable Acceleration" button on tray icon or open through RST GUI: 1. The "System View" area (Green) now shows the SSD broken up as a Cache Volume and the spare capacity volume (Yellow) if applicable. Select which disk/volume you want to look like this. Click "OK" button. 3. Enhanced or Maximized Mode. Open ...
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Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
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Resetting SSD to Available" button (Orange). The SSD is still divided into a Cache and Spare Cap Volume. The "Accelerate" tab window will delete all data on the Spare Capacity Volume! To reset SSD to a non-Cache-disk state, Click the "Reset to "Available". Resetting SSD to Available will now look like this. Note that the SSD is now reset to Available. WARNING! Resetting SSD to "Available": 1. The SSD can now be used as a normal storage device, or you can also re-enable Acceleration through the normal enable process.
Resetting SSD to Available" button (Orange). The SSD is still divided into a Cache and Spare Cap Volume. The "Accelerate" tab window will delete all data on the Spare Capacity Volume! To reset SSD to a non-Cache-disk state, Click the "Reset to "Available". Resetting SSD to Available will now look like this. Note that the SSD is now reset to Available. WARNING! Resetting SSD to "Available": 1. The SSD can now be used as a normal storage device, or you can also re-enable Acceleration through the normal enable process.
RAID Installation Guide
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Installing Windows® on a HDD under 2TB in RAID mode 18 1 Installing Windows® on a HDD larger than 2TB in RAID mode 17 4. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 6 2.3 Installing Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit With RAID Functions 7 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 8 2.5 Configuring a RAID array 8 2.5.1 Configuring a RAID array Using UEFI Setup Utility....... 8 2.5.2 Configuring a RAID array ...
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Installing Windows® on a HDD under 2TB in RAID mode 18 1 Installing Windows® on a HDD larger than 2TB in RAID mode 17 4. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 6 2.3 Installing Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit With RAID Functions 7 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 8 2.5 Configuring a RAID array 8 2.5.1 Configuring a RAID array Using UEFI Setup Utility....... 8 2.5.2 Configuring a RAID array ...
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1. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 This section will guide you how to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Rapid Storage. Guide to create RAID on this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts. Please read the RAID configurations in this motherboard for internal storage devices.
1. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 This section will guide you how to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Rapid Storage. Guide to create RAID on this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts. Please read the RAID configurations in this motherboard for internal storage devices.
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RAID The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks", which is called data mirroring that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. It will improve data access and storage since the disk array management software will introduce the basic knowledge of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as it does not provide any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will double the data transfer rate of RAID, and the guide to read and write data ...
RAID The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks", which is called data mirroring that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. It will improve data access and storage since the disk array management software will introduce the basic knowledge of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as it does not provide any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will double the data transfer rate of RAID, and the guide to read and write data ...
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Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. RAID 10 RAID 10 is required for fault-tolerance as RAID 1, and has the same overhead for this setup. 4 This configuration has the same fault tolerance as mirroring alone. A minimum of four hard disk drives is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk ...
Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. RAID 10 RAID 10 is required for fault-tolerance as RAID 1, and has the same overhead for this setup. 4 This configuration has the same fault tolerance as mirroring alone. A minimum of four hard disk drives is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk ...
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RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for this setup. 5 Among the advantages of three identical hard disk drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance, fault tolerance, and higher storage capacity.
RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for this setup. 5 Among the advantages of three identical hard disk drives for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance, fault tolerance, and higher storage capacity.
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Please use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will ask if you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array for data protection (the new drive must be of your hard disks before you create RAID functions. city and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for each drive. Please verify the status of the same size or larger than the existing drive). It is 60GB. 3. It is 120GB. 2. If you use two new drives if you create RAID, the system will be the base storage size. For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage ...
Please use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will ask if you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array for data protection (the new drive must be of your hard disks before you create RAID functions. city and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for each drive. Please verify the status of the same size or larger than the existing drive). It is 60GB. 3. It is 120GB. 2. If you use two new drives if you create RAID, the system will be the base storage size. For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage ...
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... p.8 -16 of this document for Intel SATA2/SATA3 ports. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Configuration. B. Please refer to set RAID configuration. STEP 3: Use ASRock Easy RAID Installer Follow this feature is not available for all models A. Easy RAID Installer can copy the RAID driver from a support CD to install...
... p.8 -16 of this document for Intel SATA2/SATA3 ports. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Configuration. B. Please refer to set RAID configuration. STEP 3: Use ASRock Easy RAID Installer Follow this feature is not available for all models A. Easy RAID Installer can copy the RAID driver from a support CD to install...
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Boot your RAID configuration. For Windows® 7: Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot CSM to set the option SATA Mode Selection to [RAID]. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration and set "Launch Storage OpROM policy" to [UEFI only]. 8 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring a RAID array You can configure a RAID array using either UEFI Setup Utility or Intel® RAID BIOS setup utility. 2.5.1 Configuring a RAID array Using UEFI Setup Utility STEP 1: For Windows®...
Boot your RAID configuration. For Windows® 7: Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot CSM to set the option SATA Mode Selection to [RAID]. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration and set "Launch Storage OpROM policy" to [UEFI only]. 8 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring a RAID array You can configure a RAID array using either UEFI Setup Utility or Intel® RAID BIOS setup utility. 2.5.1 Configuring a RAID array Using UEFI Setup Utility STEP 1: For Windows®...
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STEP 3: Select the option Create RAID Volume and press . 9 STEP 2: Enter Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology in Advanced page.
STEP 3: Select the option Create RAID Volume and press . 9 STEP 2: Enter Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology in Advanced page.
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STEP 4: Key-in a a volume name and press , or simply press to accept the default name. STEP 5: Select your desired RAID Level and press . 10
STEP 4: Key-in a a volume name and press , or simply press to accept the default name. STEP 5: Select your desired RAID Level and press . 10
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STEP 6: Select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array and press . STEP 7: Select a stripe size for the RAID array and press . 11
STEP 6: Select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array and press . STEP 7: Select a stripe size for the RAID array and press . 11
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STEP 8: Select Create Volume and press to delete a RAID volume, select the option Delete on the RAID volume info page and press . 12 If you want to start creating the RAID array.
STEP 8: Select Create Volume and press to delete a RAID volume, select the option Delete on the RAID volume info page and press . 12 If you want to start creating the RAID array.
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Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press . Press . Create RAID Volume window appears. In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your computer. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - Volume0 13 2.5.2 Configuring a RAID array Using Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your RAID volume then press .
Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press . Press . Create RAID Volume window appears. In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your computer. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - Volume0 13 2.5.2 Configuring a RAID array Using Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your RAID volume then press .
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You may select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), RAID 5 or RAID 10 for your RAID 0 array then press . The available values range from 8 KB to set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage •128 KB - The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. •8/16 KB - low disk usage •64 KB - performance disk usage After you set disk Capacity. 14 The default selection is 128 KB. Volume0 Volume0 If you can select Strip Size. Use the up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID level. Press , and then you selected ...
You may select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), RAID 5 or RAID 10 for your RAID 0 array then press . The available values range from 8 KB to set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage •128 KB - The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. •8/16 KB - low disk usage •64 KB - performance disk usage After you set disk Capacity. 14 The default selection is 128 KB. Volume0 Volume0 If you can select Strip Size. Use the up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID level. Press , and then you selected ...
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Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 After setting up Capacity, please press . The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 15
Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 After setting up Capacity, please press . The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 15
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Press to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you want to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 16 If you install OS. If you want to create an extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment. Please note that you are only allowed to complete the setup of RAID. After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up.
Press to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you want to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 16 If you install OS. If you want to create an extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment. Please note that you are only allowed to complete the setup of RAID. After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up.