DK8X Motherboard
SILICON IMAGE CHIPSET AND SERIAL ATA
The Serial version of this Mainboard is equipped with an integrated Silicon Image Sil3114 Serial ATA chipset. This chipset supports up to 4 SATA devices at transfer rates of up to 150MB/s.
The Silicon Image Chipset also supports RAID configurations. RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Devices" and provides different levels of safety, redundancy and performance. This chipset supports RAID 0, 1, and 10, which are defined as follows:
RAID Type | Description | |
RAID 0 | Striping: high performance, designed ot connect multiple drives to act as one | |
RAID 1 | Mirroring: writes data to two drives at once in case one drive fails, the other | |
one will be a complete replica and can continue on. Full | ||
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RAID 10 | Combination of RAID 0 and 1: over 4 drives, The drives are split in half and | |
striped together, and the 2 new striped drives are then mirrored. | ||
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This Mainboard features four (4) Serial ATA ports for 4 Serial ATA devices. Refer to the documentation that came with the drives for more information about settings and installation.
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Hardware Installation |