Intel Smart Response Installation Guide
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... from either Start Menu or by step instructions below. 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. For all required drivers, including RST storage driver version 10.5 or later. 2. After clicking OK button, SRT...
... from either Start Menu or by step instructions below. 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. For all required drivers, including RST storage driver version 10.5 or later. 2. After clicking OK button, SRT...
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Your GUI window will now change to Accelerate. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or Full Disk Capacity for Cache Volume. Reboot the system and cache setup is complete. Enabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through Start menu. Open RST GUI, either double-click on front panel. 2. 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 ...
Your GUI window will now change to Accelerate. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or Full Disk Capacity for Cache Volume. Reboot the system and cache setup is complete. Enabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through Start menu. Open RST GUI, either double-click on front panel. 2. 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 ...
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Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
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Resetting SSD to "Available". 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 will now look like this. Resetting SSD to Available" button (Orange). The SSD is still divided into a Cache and Spare Cap Volume. To reset SSD to a non-Cache-disk state, Click the "Reset to "Available": 1. The "Accelerate" tab window will delete all data on the Spare Capacity Volume! WARNING! Note that the SSD is now reset to Available.
Resetting SSD to "Available". 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 will now look like this. Resetting SSD to Available" button (Orange). The SSD is still divided into a Cache and Spare Cap Volume. To reset SSD to a non-Cache-disk state, Click the "Reset to "Available": 1. The "Accelerate" tab window will delete all data on the Spare Capacity Volume! WARNING! Note that the SSD is now reset to Available.
RAID Installation Guide
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Installing Windows® on a HDD larger than 2TB in RAID mode 17 4. Installing Windows® on a HDD under 2TB in RAID mode 18 1 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 Using Intel RAID BIOS....... 13 3. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (...
Installing Windows® on a HDD larger than 2TB in RAID mode 17 4. Installing Windows® on a HDD under 2TB in RAID mode 18 1 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 Using Intel RAID BIOS....... 13 3. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (...
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1. Please read the RAID configurations in this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you how to create RAID on this guide carefully according 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. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 Guide to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts.
1. Please read the RAID configurations in this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you how to create RAID on this guide carefully according 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. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 Guide to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts.
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Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it does not provide any HDDs of the same model and capacity when creating a RAID set. WARNING!! RAID The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of data from one logical unit. RAID 1 (Data Mirroring) RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of Independent Disks", which is called data striping 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 ...
Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it does not provide any HDDs of the same model and capacity when creating a RAID set. WARNING!! RAID The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of data from one logical unit. RAID 1 (Data Mirroring) RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of Independent Disks", which is called data striping 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 ...
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RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. In some instances, a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure. A minimum of four hard disk drives is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. This technology also allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives. Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. This configuration has the same fault tolerance...
RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. In some instances, a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure. A minimum of four hard disk drives is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. This technology also allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives. Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. This configuration has the same fault tolerance...
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The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for this setup. 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. 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.
The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for this setup. 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. 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 new drives if you use two SATA drives of the same size. You may use two new drives, or use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size. It is 120GB. 2. city and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for data protection (the new drive must be of your hard disks before you create RAID functions. Please backup your new RAID array. If you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for each drive. Please verify the status of the same size or larger than the existing drive...
Please use two new drives if you use two SATA drives of the same size. You may use two new drives, or use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size. It is 120GB. 2. city and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for data protection (the new drive must be of your hard disks before you create RAID functions. Please backup your new RAID array. If you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for each drive. Please verify the status of the same size or larger than the existing drive...
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... 1: Set up UEFI. Please note that this document for all models A. otherwise, skip to complete the process. Follow the onscreen instruction to STEP4. STEP 3: Use ASRock Easy RAID Installer Follow this step only if you want to set RAID configuration. STEP 2: Set RAID configuration. Plug in your USB storage device with...
... 1: Set up UEFI. Please note that this document for all models A. otherwise, skip to complete the process. Follow the onscreen instruction to STEP4. STEP 3: Use ASRock Easy RAID Installer Follow this step only if you want to set RAID configuration. STEP 2: Set RAID configuration. Plug in your USB storage device with...
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Press key to save your RAID configuration. For Windows® 7: Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot CSM to set "Launch Storage OpROM policy" to [RAID]. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration and set the option SATA Mode Selection to [UEFI only]. 8 or Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot to enter BIOS setup utility. 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your change before you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring a RAID array You can configure a RAID array using either UEFI Setup Utility or Intel® ...
Press key to save your RAID configuration. For Windows® 7: Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot CSM to set "Launch Storage OpROM policy" to [RAID]. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration and set the option SATA Mode Selection to [UEFI only]. 8 or Go to UEFI SETUP UTILITY Boot to enter BIOS setup utility. 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your change before you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring a RAID array You can configure a RAID array using either UEFI Setup Utility or Intel® ...
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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. STEP 3: Select the option Create RAID Volume and press . 9
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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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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. 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
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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 . Create RAID Volume window appears. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your computer. Volume0 13 Press .
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 . Create RAID Volume window appears. Then, the Intel RAID Utility - In the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your computer. Volume0 13 Press .
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Use the up or down arrow keys to select your RAID level. You may select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), RAID 5 or RAID 10 for your RAID 0 array then press . performance disk usage After you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up or down keys to select the stripe size for your desired RAID Level. The available values range from 8 KB to set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage •128 KB - Volume0 Volume0 If you set disk Capacity. 14 Press , and then you can select Strip Size. The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. •...
Use the up or down arrow keys to select your RAID level. You may select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), RAID 5 or RAID 10 for your RAID 0 array then press . performance disk usage After you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up or down keys to select the stripe size for your desired RAID Level. The available values range from 8 KB to set disk block size, press to 128 KB. typical disk usage •128 KB - Volume0 Volume0 If you set disk Capacity. 14 Press , and then you can select Strip Size. The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. •...
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Volume0 After setting up Capacity, please press . The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 15
Volume0 After setting up Capacity, please press . The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. Volume0 15
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After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to create an extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment. Please note that you install OS. If you want to configure RAID functions after you set up. If you want to complete the setup of RAID. Press to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 16
After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under Windows environment to create an extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under BIOS RAID environment. Please note that you install OS. If you want to configure RAID functions after you set up. If you want to complete the setup of RAID. Press to delete a RAID volume, please select the option Delete RAID Volume, press , and then follow the instructions on the screen. 16