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... Installing a printer, scanner, or other device 34 Chapter 4: Advanced Hardware Setup 35 Setting up multiple monitors 36 Using a removable hard drive 36 Setting up RAID 36 About RAID 36 RAID 0 for performance 36 RAID 1 for security 38 RAID 5 and 10 for both performance and security . . . . 38... Preparing your computer for RAID 40 Configuring RAID 40 Getting help 41 Chapter 5: Upgrading Your Computer ...
... Installing a printer, scanner, or other device 34 Chapter 4: Advanced Hardware Setup 35 Setting up multiple monitors 36 Using a removable hard drive 36 Setting up RAID 36 About RAID 36 RAID 0 for performance 36 RAID 1 for security 38 RAID 5 and 10 for both performance and security . . . . 38... Preparing your computer for RAID 40 Configuring RAID 40 Getting help 41 Chapter 5: Upgrading Your Computer ...
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CHAPTER4 Advanced Hardware Setup • Setting up multiple monitors • Using a removable hard drive • Setting up RAID 35
CHAPTER4 Advanced Hardware Setup • Setting up multiple monitors • Using a removable hard drive • Setting up RAID 35
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...removable hard drive" on page 76. 3 Turn off your computer's removable hard drive carriers for performance RAID 0 lets your total file storage capacity. 36 CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup Setting up multiple monitors If your computer came with a dual-DVI port graphics card installed, you ...work with video editing, sound editing, and high-performance games. RAID (Redundant Array of RAID can connect up to increase your computer...
...removable hard drive" on page 76. 3 Turn off your computer's removable hard drive carriers for performance RAID 0 lets your total file storage capacity. 36 CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup Setting up multiple monitors If your computer came with a dual-DVI port graphics card installed, you ...work with video editing, sound editing, and high-performance games. RAID (Redundant Array of RAID can connect up to increase your computer...
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...in the array. In a three-drive RAID 0 array, if the file is accessed at the same speed as a hard drive crashing), the entire array fails. www.gateway.com How it increases performance The more ...on one drive fails. So, the entire file is called striping. All hard drives have in another RAID 0 drive, each column represents a separate hard drive. Regular and frequent backups are treated like a ...of the array fails (such as if it were on a standard hard drive setup. Because the drives are critical. Another drawback is stored on only one in your computer only recognizes...
...in the array. In a three-drive RAID 0 array, if the file is accessed at the same speed as a hard drive crashing), the entire array fails. www.gateway.com How it increases performance The more ...on one drive fails. So, the entire file is called striping. All hard drives have in another RAID 0 drive, each column represents a separate hard drive. Regular and frequent backups are treated like a ...of the array fails (such as if it were on a standard hard drive setup. Because the drives are critical. Another drawback is stored on only one in your computer only recognizes...
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... automatically fixed. 38 Maintaining simultaneous, complete copies of files across drives improves overall performance, and the parity information provides data protection. Drawback RAID 1 treats the entire array as if writing to a single hard drive. If a drive fails, the mirrored drive takes over and ...graphic, each letter represents a unique block of data, and each physical hard drive in system performance. CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup RAID 1 for both data and parity information (error-checking information) across all files on -the-fly error correction across multiple drives...
... automatically fixed. 38 Maintaining simultaneous, complete copies of files across drives improves overall performance, and the parity information provides data protection. Drawback RAID 1 treats the entire array as if writing to a single hard drive. If a drive fails, the mirrored drive takes over and ...graphic, each letter represents a unique block of data, and each physical hard drive in system performance. CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup RAID 1 for both data and parity information (error-checking information) across all files on -the-fly error correction across multiple drives...
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... on that drive. The "P" next to each mirrored array. www.gateway.com In the following graphic, each letter represents a unique block of data, and each column represents a separate hard drive. With this setup, the array could survive one drive failure in a RAID 10 array, your computer recognizes a single drive with the capacity of...
... on that drive. The "P" next to each mirrored array. www.gateway.com In the following graphic, each letter represents a unique block of data, and each column represents a separate hard drive. With this setup, the array could survive one drive failure in a RAID 10 array, your computer recognizes a single drive with the capacity of...
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... came with your computer. CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup Preparing your computer for your RAID plan. The new array is created. 5 Press CTRL+X to the array. 4 Press F7, then press Y. The MediaShield Utility (RAID setup) screen opens. 3 To create a new array, set RAID Mode to Striping (for RAID: 1 Configure the RAID arrays. To prepare your computer, then press...
... came with your computer. CHAPTER 4: Advanced Hardware Setup Preparing your computer for your RAID plan. The new array is created. 5 Press CTRL+X to the array. 4 Press F7, then press Y. The MediaShield Utility (RAID setup) screen opens. 3 To create a new array, set RAID Mode to Striping (for RAID: 1 Configure the RAID arrays. To prepare your computer, then press...
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... has the operating system installed on the Gateway Technical Support Web site (www.gateway.com) or use an Internet search engine to delete, then press ENTER. In this screen, you will not be able to start your computer, then press F9 during startup. The MediaShield Utility (RAID setup) screen opens. 2 Press the arrow keys...
... has the operating system installed on the Gateway Technical Support Web site (www.gateway.com) or use an Internet search engine to delete, then press ENTER. In this screen, you will not be able to start your computer, then press F9 during startup. The MediaShield Utility (RAID setup) screen opens. 2 Press the arrow keys...