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... 4.3.4 USB 3.0 Boost 4-18 4.3.5 EZ Update 4-19 4.3.6 Network iControl 4-20 4.3.7 USB BIOS Flashback Wizard 4-22 4.3.8 USB Charger 4-24 4.3.9 System Information 4-25 4.3.10 Audio configurations 4-26 Chapter 5: RAID support 5.1 RAID configurations 5-1 5.1.1 RAID definitions 5-1 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 5-2 5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 5-2 5.1.4 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility 5-3 5.2 Installing the...
... 4.3.4 USB 3.0 Boost 4-18 4.3.5 EZ Update 4-19 4.3.6 Network iControl 4-20 4.3.7 USB BIOS Flashback Wizard 4-22 4.3.8 USB Charger 4-24 4.3.9 System Information 4-25 4.3.10 Audio configurations 4-26 Chapter 5: RAID support 5.1 RAID configurations 5-1 5.1.1 RAID definitions 5-1 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks 5-2 5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS 5-2 5.1.4 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility 5-3 5.2 Installing the...
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... documentation, such as warranty flyers, that comes with the motherboard package and the software. • Chapter 5: RAID support This chapter describes the RAID configurations. Optional documentation Your product package may have to perform when installing system components. • Chapter 3: BIOS... setup This chapter tells how to the ASUS contact information. 2. Refer to change system settings through the BIOS Setup...
... documentation, such as warranty flyers, that comes with the motherboard package and the software. • Chapter 5: RAID support This chapter describes the RAID configurations. Optional documentation Your product package may have to perform when installing system components. • Chapter 3: BIOS... setup This chapter tells how to the ASUS contact information. 2. Refer to change system settings through the BIOS Setup...
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...depending on the next page) Absolute pitch 192khz/24bit true BD lossless sound - supports ASUS USB 3.0 Boost - 6 x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at rear panel) Intel® Z87 Express Chipset - 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at.... TUF Thermal Radar 2 with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support - Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming and front panel jackretasking - certified by military-standard) - Guardian Angel - Optical S/PDIF out ports at rear I /O dust filter - MemOK! - SABERTOOTH Z87 specifications summary Storage Audio USB Exclusive...
...depending on the next page) Absolute pitch 192khz/24bit true BD lossless sound - supports ASUS USB 3.0 Boost - 6 x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at rear panel) Intel® Z87 Express Chipset - 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at.... TUF Thermal Radar 2 with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support - Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming and front panel jackretasking - certified by military-standard) - Guardian Angel - Optical S/PDIF out ports at rear I /O dust filter - MemOK! - SABERTOOTH Z87 specifications summary Storage Audio USB Exclusive...
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...Z87 Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-6 [brown]) These connectors connect to [AHCI Mode] by default. Chapter 1 • These connectors are set the SATA Mode item in the motherboard support DVD. 1-26 Chapter 1: Product introduction If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID...to section 3.6.3 SATA Configuration for details. • Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID configurations or the manual bundled in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. If you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 configuration with the Intel® Rapid ...
...Z87 Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-6 [brown]) These connectors connect to [AHCI Mode] by default. Chapter 1 • These connectors are set the SATA Mode item in the motherboard support DVD. 1-26 Chapter 1: Product introduction If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID...to section 3.6.3 SATA Configuration for details. • Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID configurations or the manual bundled in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. If you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 configuration with the Intel® Rapid ...
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... to aggressively enter link power state. 3.6.3 SATA Configuration While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of commands. [RAID] Set to [RAID Mode] when you to enable the PCH to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. Scroll down to display the other BIOS items. Chapter 3 SATA Mode Selection [AHCI...
... to aggressively enter link power state. 3.6.3 SATA Configuration While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of commands. [RAID] Set to [RAID Mode] when you to enable the PCH to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. Scroll down to display the other BIOS items. Chapter 3 SATA Mode Selection [AHCI...
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...] [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] [160M] [192M] [224M] [256M] [288M] [320M] [352M] [384M] [416M] [448M] [480M] [512M] [1024M] ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 3-31 Chapter 3 Primary Display [Auto] Allows you to select the primary display from iGPU, and PCIe graphical devices. SATA6G_6 [Brown]) These items appear only when... you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or [RAID], and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support. Status Check [Enabled] S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is ...
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... if the system detects installed devices. The Manual menu contains the list of the user manual. The AHCI/RAID Driver menu contains the RAID/AHCI driver disk. The Utilities menu shows the applications and other software that the motherboard supports. Click an icon... to display DVD/ motherboard information Click an item to use the devices. Install the necessary drivers to install Chapter 4 4-2 Chapter 4: Software support Click an item to display the ASUS...
... if the system detects installed devices. The Manual menu contains the list of the user manual. The AHCI/RAID Driver menu contains the RAID/AHCI driver disk. The Utilities menu shows the applications and other software that the motherboard supports. Click an icon... to display DVD/ motherboard information Click an item to use the devices. Install the necessary drivers to install Chapter 4 4-2 Chapter 4: Software support Click an item to display the ASUS...
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...and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-1 Use two new drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for this setup. With the RAID 10 configuration you get all applications to the surviving drive as a single... drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 configuration. 5.1.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in the other business systems. ...
...and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-1 Use two new drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for this setup. With the RAID 10 configuration you get all applications to the surviving drive as a single... drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 configuration. 5.1.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in the other business systems. ...
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...Enter the BIOS Setup during POST. 2. Save your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup. To do this: 1. Chapter 5 5-2 Chapter 5: RAID configurations Connect the SATA signal cables. 3. Refer to Chapter 3 for a RAID configuration: 1. To install the SATA hard disks for details on each drive. 5.1.3 Setting the... RAID item in BIOS You must enable the RAID function in the BIOS Setup before creating RAID sets using SATA HDDs. Go to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together. 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks The ...
...Enter the BIOS Setup during POST. 2. Save your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup. To do this: 1. Chapter 5 5-2 Chapter 5: RAID configurations Connect the SATA signal cables. 3. Refer to Chapter 3 for a RAID configuration: 1. To install the SATA hard disks for details on each drive. 5.1.3 Setting the... RAID item in BIOS You must enable the RAID function in the BIOS Setup before creating RAID sets using SATA HDDs. Go to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together. 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks The ...
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...ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to Non-RAID 6. Acceleration Options 3. Turn on your screen. Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology - Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-3 Delete RAID Volume 5. The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for reference only and may not exactly match the... Option ROM utility To enter the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility: 1. v10.5.1.1070 Copyright(C) 2003-10 Intel Corporation. Create RAID Volume 4. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for...
...ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to Non-RAID 6. Acceleration Options 3. Turn on your screen. Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology - Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-3 Delete RAID Volume 5. The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for reference only and may not exactly match the... Option ROM utility To enter the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility: 1. v10.5.1.1070 Copyright(C) 2003-10 Intel Corporation. Create RAID Volume 4. The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for...
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...;↓]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu 2. The following screen appears: Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology - Enter a name for the RAID set . When the Disks item is selected, press to select the hard disk drives you want to include in creating the volume. ...[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done Chapter 5 5-4 Chapter 5: RAID configurations The SELECT DISKS screen appears: Port Drive Model 0 ST3160812AS 1 ST3160812AS 2 ST3160812AS 3 ST3160812AS [ SELECT DISKS ] Serial # 9LS0HJA4 9LS0F4HL 3LS0JYL8...
...;↓]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu 2. The following screen appears: Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology - Enter a name for the RAID set . When the Disks item is selected, press to select the hard disk drives you want to include in creating the volume. ...[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done Chapter 5 5-4 Chapter 5: RAID configurations The SELECT DISKS screen appears: Port Drive Model 0 ST3160812AS 1 ST3160812AS 2 ST3160812AS 3 ST3160812AS [ SELECT DISKS ] Serial # 9LS0HJA4 9LS0F4HL 3LS0JYL8...
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...ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-5 Use the up /down arrow key to select the stripe size for the RAID array (for audio and video editing. 7. The following are typical values: • RAID 0: 128KB • RAID 10: 64KB • RAID 5: 64KB We recommend a lower stripe size for server systems, and a higher stripe size for multimedia computer systems used mainly for RAID...appears: WARNING: ALL DATA ON SELECTED DISKS WILL BE LOST. When the Create Volume item is selected, enter the RAID volume capacity that you want and press . The default value indicates the maximum allowed capacity. 8. Use the up...
...ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-5 Use the up /down arrow key to select the stripe size for the RAID array (for audio and video editing. 7. The following are typical values: • RAID 0: 128KB • RAID 10: 64KB • RAID 5: 64KB We recommend a lower stripe size for server systems, and a higher stripe size for multimedia computer systems used mainly for RAID...appears: WARNING: ALL DATA ON SELECTED DISKS WILL BE LOST. When the Create Volume item is selected, enter the RAID volume capacity that you want and press . The default value indicates the maximum allowed capacity. 8. Use the up...
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... on the hard disk drives when you want to delete, and then press . Use the up/down arrow key to select the RAID set you delete a RAID set and return to the utility main menu, or press to return to Recovery volumes) [↑↓]-Select [ESC]-Previous Menu [...DEL]-Delete Volume 2. Press to delete the RAID set . Delete RAID Volume and press . To delete a RAID set . WARNING: ALL DISK DATA WILL BE DELETED. (This does not apply to the DELETE VOLUME menu. Chapter 5 5-6 Chapter...
... on the hard disk drives when you want to delete, and then press . Use the up/down arrow key to select the RAID set you delete a RAID set and return to the utility main menu, or press to return to Recovery volumes) [↑↓]-Select [ESC]-Previous Menu [...DEL]-Delete Volume 2. Press to delete the RAID set . Delete RAID Volume and press . To delete a RAID set . WARNING: ALL DISK DATA WILL BE DELETED. (This does not apply to the DELETE VOLUME menu. Chapter 5 5-6 Chapter...
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...to load the UEFI driver for Windows® OS: 1. Click the name of the device you have to use another computer to copy the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, you 've inserted, go to exit? (Y/N): 2. Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility... To exit the utility: 1. Insert the USB flash drive with RAID driver into the USB port or the support DVD into the optical drive, and then click Browse. 3. Click OK. 4. Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-7 Exit, then press . From the utility main menu, select 5.
...to load the UEFI driver for Windows® OS: 1. Click the name of the device you have to use another computer to copy the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, you 've inserted, go to exit? (Y/N): 2. Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility... To exit the utility: 1. Insert the USB flash drive with RAID driver into the USB port or the support DVD into the optical drive, and then click Browse. 3. Click OK. 4. Chapter 5 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 5-7 Exit, then press . From the utility main menu, select 5.