Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation RAID Configuration(9)
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1. RAID 1 Intel Matrix Storage RAID 10 RAID 5 function with six independent Serial ATA SATA channels This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID and the guide to configure RAID 0 RAID 1 Intel Matrix Storage RAID 10 RAID 5 settings RAID The term RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit For optimal performance please install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a RAID set RAID 0 Data Striping RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel interleaved stacks It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate WARNING Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance it does not provide any fault tolerance Hot Plug any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss RAID 1 Data Mirroring RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive It provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other2. 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation Guide to RAID Configurations Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation Introduction of RAID eueessenseeneneneneeneesnennnn RAID Configuration Precautions e Installing Windows XP XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions Setting the BIOS RAID Items nee Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Deleting RAID Volume uuersnnenersnnnenenenn nenne 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1 1 Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation Intel P55 southbridge chipset supports Serial ATA SATA hard disks with RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 and Intel Matrix Storage Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices For SATA installation guide please refer to Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation of User Manual in the support CD This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports 2 Guide to RAID Configurations 2 1 Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts Intel southbridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0
3. Volume If you want to delete a RAID volume please select the option Delete RAID Volume press lt Enter gt and then follow the instructions on the screen Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed MAIN MENU 1_Create RAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Non RAID 4 Exit DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes ID Name Level Strip Size Status Bootable 2 0 RAID_VolumeO RAID Stripe 128KB 23 5GB Normal Yes Physical Disks Port Driver Model Serial Size Type Status Vol ID 0 ST3120026AS 3JT354CP 111 7GB 1 ST3120026AS 3IT329IX 111 7GB TL Select ENTER Select Menu 15
4. drive if one drive fails Intel Matrix Storage The Intel Matrix Storage technology supported allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives The Intel Matrix Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID O and RAID 1 sets This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data RAID 10 RAID 10 is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays This configuration has the same fault tolerance as RAID 1 and has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone 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 required for this setup RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the advantages of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance fault tolerance and higher storage capacity The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing relational database applications enterprise resource planning and other business systems Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup 2 2 RAID Configurations Precautions le Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 striping array for performance It is recommended to u
5. e Menu under Name item please key in a unique name with 1 16 letters for your RAID volume then press lt Enter gt Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed re CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume0 RAID Level Disks Stnp Size Capacity 223 5GB Create Volume Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage model RAIDO Stripe Creates a volume where equal portions of the volume are spread across all the disks This creates a volume with higher performance by accessing all disks at once RAIDI Stripe Creates a volume where a redundant copy of the data is stored on each disk This creates a volume protected from a single hard disk failure 14 Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level You may select RAIDO Stripe RAID1 Mirror RAID 5 RAID 10 or Matrix Storage for your RAID level Press lt Enter gt and then you can select Strip Size 12 Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume0 RAID Level RAIDO Stnpe Disks Select Disks Strip Size Capacity Create Volume Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage model The following are typical values 16KB Best for sequential transfers 64KB Good general purpose strip size 128KB Best performance for mos
6. load the Intel RAID drivers Intel RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD 11386 For Windows Vista OS AMD64 For Windows Vista 64 bit OS After that please insert Windows Vista Vista 64 bit optical disk into the optical drive again to continue the installation After the installation of Windows Vista Vista 64 bit OS if you want to manage RAID functions you are allowed to use both RAID Installation Guide and Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information for RAID configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager which is located in the folder at the following path Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information 2 4 2 5 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration Boot your system and press lt F2 gt key to enter BIOS setup utility Highlight Advanced and press lt Enter gt then the main interface of BIOS setup utility will appear Please set the option Configure SATA as to RAID Save your change before you exit BIOS setup Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your computer Wait until you see the RAID software prom
7. o the OS you install 2 3 1 Installing Windows XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows XP XP 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration B Set SATAII Configuration to Enhanced and then in the option Configure SATAII as please set the option to RAID STEP 2 Make a SATA SATAII Driver Diskette A Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system B During POST at the beginning of system boot up press lt F11 gt key and then a window for boot devices selection appears Please select CD ROM as the boot device C When you see the message on the screen Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette YN press lt Y gt D Then you will see these messages Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive WARNING Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it Start to format and copy files YN Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press lt Y gt E The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette STEP 3 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure the RAID function you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the document in
8. pting you to press lt Ctrl l gt Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed RAID Volumes None Defined Physical Disks Port Driver Model Serial Size Type Status Vol ID 0 ST3120026AS 3JT354CP 1117GB Non RAIDDisk 1 ST3120026AS 3JT329JX 111 7GB Non RAIDDisk Press to enter Configuration Utility Press lt Ctrl l gt Then the Intel RAID Utility Create RAID Volume window appears Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynght C 2003 04 Intel Corporation AU Rights Reversed MAIN MENU 1 Create RAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Non RAID 4 Exit DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes None Defined Physical Disks Port Driver Model Senal Size Typc Status Vol ID 0 ST3120026AS 3JT354CP 111 7GB 1 ST3120026AS 3JT329JX 111 7GB T4 Select ESC Exit ENTER Select Menu Select the option Create RAID Volume and press lt Enter gt 11 Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU RAILDO Stripe Select Disks 128KB 223 5GR Create Volume HELP Enter a string between and 16 characters n length that cam be used to unsquely identify the RAID volume This name 15 case sensitive and can not contain special characters 14 Change ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select In the Create Volum
9. se two SATA drives of the same size If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for each drive For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the 80GB drive becomes 60GB and the total storage capacity for this RAID O set is 120GB Pe You may use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive to create a RAID 1 mirroring array for data protection the new drive must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is 60GB 3 Please verify the status of your hard disks before you set up your new RAID array WARNING Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions In the process you create RAID the system will ask if you want to Clear Disk Data or not It is recommended to select Yes and then your future data building will operate under a clean environment 2 3 Installing Windows XP XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows XP XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below procedures according t
10. specified volume TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select Press lt Enter gt under the Create Volume item The utility prompts a confirmation message as below Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MEN VolumeO RAIDO Stipe Select Disks 128KB 223 5 GB Are you sure you want to creat this volume Y N Press ENTER to Create the specified volume ENTER Select Press lt Y gt to complete the setup of RAID Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynght C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed MAIN MENU 1 Create RAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Non RAID 4 Exit LDISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes ID Name 0 RAID_Volume0 Physical Disks Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS 14 Select Level RAID Stripe Serial 3JT354CP 3JT329JX Strip Siz Status Bootable 128KB 223 5GB Normal Yes Size Type Status Vol ID 111 7GB 111 7GB ENTER Select Menu After the completion you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up 14 Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment If you want to create extra RAID partition please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS 2 6 Deleting RAID
11. t desktops and workstations NN Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select If you selected RAID 0 Stripe use the up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press lt Enter gt The available values range from 8 KB to 128 KB The default selection is 128 KB The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage 8 16 KB low disk usage 64 KB typical disk usage 128 KB performance disk usage After you set disk block size press lt Enter gt to set disk Capacity Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynght C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume0 RAID Level RAIDO Stnpe Disks Select Disks Strip Size 128KB Capacity Create Volume HELP Rater the volume capacity The default value indicates the maximum volume capacity using the selected disks If less than the maximum capacity is chosen creation of a second volume is needed to utilize the remaining space 71 Chmge ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select After setting up Capacity please press lt enter gt 13 Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynght C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume RAID Level RAIDO Strmpe Disks Select Disks Strip Size Capacity Create Volume HELP Press ENTER to Create the
12. the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide 2 3 4 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows Vista Vista 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration B Set SATAII Configuration to Enhanced and then in the option Configure SATAII as please set the option to RAID STEP 2 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure the RAID function you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide STEP 3 Install Windows Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your system Insert the Windows Vista Vista 64 bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system and follow the instruction to install Windows Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your system When you see Where do you want to install Windows page please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive and click the Load Driver button on the left on the bottom to
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