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Question posted by papavonschoen on July 10th, 2013
How To Add An Ssd Drive To Raid 0. It Has 2 Drives.
I have 2 128G SSD's in a Raid 0. I'd like to add another drive or would it be better to use it to cache the existing raid. My data drive is 2TB.
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Manual - Page 2
Motherboard GA-870A-UD3
Jan. 14, 2011
Motherboard GA-870A-UD3
Jan. 14, 2011
Manual - Page 5
... 4-6 SMART Recovery 72 4-7 Auto Green...73
Chapter 5 Appendix...75 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 75
5-1-1 Configuring AMD SB850 SATA Controller 75 5-1-2 Configuring GIGABYTE SATA2/JMicron JMB362 SATA Controller 81 5-1-3 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette 87 5-1-4 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 89 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 98 5-2-1 Configuring...
Manual - Page 10
.../s connectors on the back panel supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive
Hardware Installation
- 10 - Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD iTE IT8720 chip:
- 1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices - Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD GIGABYTE SATA2 chip: - 1 x IDE connector supporting...
Manual - Page 19
... to prevent an electrical short inside the cable connector.
- 19 -
Before using this feature, ensure that your device and then remove it from the motherboard.
• When removing the cable, pull it side to side to Chapter 5, "Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)," for USB devices such as a USB keyboard/mouse, USB printer, USB flash...
Manual - Page 24
... SATA 6Gb/s standard and are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be an even number.
• A RAID 5 configuration requires at least three hard drives. (The total number of hard drives does not have to your SATA hard drive.
• A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least four hard drives and the total number of hard...
Manual - Page 64
... main BIOS is saved to a hard drive in RAID/AHCI mode or a hard drive attached to -use FAT32/16/12 file system. 3.
4-2 BIOS Update Utilities
GIGABYTE motherboards provide two unique BIOS update tools, Q-Flash™ and @BIOS™. Additionally, this motherboard features the DualBIOS™ design, which enhances protection for GA-870A-UD3 D1 . . . .
: BIOS Setup : XpressRecovery2 : Boot...
Manual - Page 65
...a hard drive in RAID/AHCI mode or a hard drive attached to
an independent IDE/SATA controller, use the key during the POST to a USB flash drive. Step 2: The process of Q-Flash, use
the up... the USB flash drive is saved.
Unique Features Insert the USB flash drive containing the BIOS file into the computer. Make sure the BIOS update file matches your motherboard model. The monitor...
Manual - Page 73
... a cell phone, the Add Bluetooth Device Wizard as the Auto Green key, you'll not be used for pairing with simple options... drive will be able to use as a portable key.
Before installing the Bluetooth dongle, be turned off the hard drive... 73 - Selecting a system energy saving mode: Depending on the motherboard models.
The Configuration dialog box: First, you have turned on...
Manual - Page 75
... XP. (Note 2) E.
Chapter 5 Appendix
5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: A. Configure a RAID array in your power supply to create RAID, you use two hard
drives with identical model and capacity). If you do not want to the hard drive.
(Note 1) Skip this motherboard, the SATA3_0~SATA3_5 ports are supported by the...
Manual - Page 79
... been selected It will appear. Then, the message in Figure 6 will erase the MBR data of disks assigned. 5. Press the key or to change the Assignment option to highlight a drive. 4. The message in Figure 8 will be used .
Under the Drives Assignments section, press the up or down arrow key to Y. Figure 8
8. Appendix Figure 6
6.
Press...
Manual - Page 80
...to Main Menu. The View LD Defination Menu will return to Delete LD Menu.
Deleting an existing disk array could result in loss of disk array assignments. When the array is deleted, ...of data. LD No LD Name
[ View LD Defination Menu ] RAID Mode Drv
Capacity(GB)
LD 1 GBT
RAID 0
2
80
Stripe Block: 64 KB
Cache Mode: WriteThru
Port:ID 01:00 02:00
[ Drives Assignments ]
Drive ...
Manual - Page 81
... BIOS Setup menus described in system BIOS Setup.
Installing SATA hard drive(s) in BIOS Setup Make sure to Integrated Peripherals.
To enable RAID, see shall depend on the motherboard you will see the table below for RAID. Configuring SATA controller mode in your motherboard. Controller Connectors GIGABYTE GSATA2_6/7 SATA2 JMicron eSATA ports JMB362
BIOS Settings...
Manual - Page 82
... 3), use the up or down arrow key to the installation of Windows operating system for a message which says "Press to enter RAID Setup Utility ... Gigabyte Technology Corp. Skip this step and proceed to highlight through choices in the Hard Disk Drive List block and press to see detailed information about the selected hard drive...
Manual - Page 83
...Type/Status Non-RAID Non-RAID
Confirm Creation
[ RAID Disk Drive List ]
[ Help ]
Select RAID Level
RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD
Data striped for performance Data mirrored for redundancy Data concatenated for ...temporarily disk required
[hi]-Switch RAID Level
[ENTER]-Next
Figure 5
[ESC]-Abort
- 83 - Select RAID Mode: Under the Level item, use up or down arrow key to move onto ...
Manual - Page 87
... the driver for your optical drive is /are configured to RAID/AHCI mode, you also can copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to install the SATA controller driver during the Windows setup process. For installing Windows Vista, you need to a floppy disk. sume that the drive letter for the SATA...
Manual - Page 88
... exit when finished.
Figure 3
Figure 4
Appendix
- 88 - In Windows mode: Steps: 1: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 2: From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in Figure 4, • For the AMD SB850, select 3) ATi AHCI/RAID Driver for XP for Windows XP operating system. • For the...
Manual - Page 91
... driver. Step 2:
Figure 4
Insert the motherboard driver disk (Method A) or the removable storage device such as USB flash drive that only one RAID array exists in your system and browse to the following directory: \BootDrv\SB8xxV\RAID\LH For Windows Vista 64-bit, browse to
the USB flash drive).
Then use Method B to the LH (for Windows...
Manual - Page 93
... Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. Note: For users using a SATA optical drive, be detected at this stage), select Load Driver (Figure 8). Figure 8
Step 2: Insert the motherboard driver disk (Method A) or the floppy disk/USB flash drive that below appears (RAID/AHCI hard drive(s) will not be sure to that contains the SATA...
Manual - Page 95
... make sure to use a new drive of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the Logical Drive Information pane will display as RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10.
Step 3: Select one available drive and click Start ...the old drive, make sure the chipset drivers have been installed from All Programs in to launch AMD RAIDXpert. Then launch the AMD RAIDXpert from the motherboard driver disk...
Manual - Page 97
... be rebuilt in the tool bar.)
Step 2: When the Rebuilding RAID Wizard appears, click Next.
Launch the GIGABYTE RAID CONFIGURER from the motherboard driver disk. Step 4: Click Finish to rebuild the array and click Next. Select Rebuild Raid. (Or click the Rebuild icon in the RAID LIST block. Step 5: The rebuilding progress is displayed at...
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