Install Silicon Serial ATA RAID Driver

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BIOS Setup for Silicon Serial

ATA RAID

This motherboard supports the RAID operation of “Striping (RAID 0)”, “Mirroring (RAID 1)”, or “Striping/Mirroring (RAID 0+1)” via Silicon Serial ATA controller. For the striping operation, the identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase system performance. The Mirroring operation creates a complete backup of your files. Striping with Mirroring operation offers both read/write performance and fault tolerance.

NOTE: If you want to create a RAID 0 (striping) array or RAID 0+1 array, all the data stored in the hard disks will first be erased! Please backup the hard disk data before starting to create these RAID arrays.

If you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array, please make sure which hard disk is the source disk and which one is the destination disk. If you make a mistake, you may copy the blank data to the source disk, which will result in both hard disks becoming blank!

Option 1Create RAID set

This item allows you to create a RAID array.

RAID Configuration Utility Menu

Main Menu

Reboot your system. Press <CTRL> + <S> or <F4> key while booting up the system to enter the BIOS setting menu. The main menu of BIOS Setting Utility appears as shown below:

To select the option in this menu, you may:

•Press <↑↓> (up, down arrow) to choose the option you want to confirm or to modify.

•Press <Enter> to confirm the selection.

•Press <Esc> to return to previous menu.

•Press <Ctrl-E> to exit the RAID configuration utility.

NOTE: It is highly recommended to attach hard disks with the same model in reaching the RAID performance.

RAID0: This item is recommended for high performance usage. Requires at least 2 disks.

RAID1: This item is recommended for data security usage. Requires at least 2 disks.

RAID10: This item is recommended for data security and high performance usage. Allows Mirroring with a Strip Array. Require 4 disks.

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