RAID Bios Installation, Creating Striped Sets RAID

Disk Striping (RAID 0)

Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk.

Disk Mirroring (RAID 1)

Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system reads the data from the other drive.

3. RAID BIOS Installation

Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. During boot up, the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do.

This board will act as normal NON-RAID card when BIOS not configured for RAID. Just proceed to Software Installation section directly.

If you use traditional parallel ATA HDD, make sure your hard drives be set up as master mode before the RAID setting.

3.1. Creating Striped Sets (RAID 0)

1.As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select Create RAID set. Press Enter.

3.Select Striped then press Enter.

4.Select Auto configuration. Press Enter.

5.Press Y to save your settings.

6.Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup.

7.Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive.

8.Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.

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