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Step 3:

After entering the CREATE VOLUME MENU screen, enter a volume name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) under the Name item and press <Enter>. Then, select a RAID level (Figure 4). There are four RAID levels supported: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 (the selections available depend on the number of the hard drives being installed). Press <Enter> to proceed.

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[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]

Name : Volume0

RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe)

Disks : Select Disks

Strip Size : 128KB

Capacity : 223.6 GB

Create Volume

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Choose the RAID level:

RAID0: Stripes data (performance).

RAID1: Mirrors data (redundancy).

RAID10: Mirrors data and stripes the mirror.

RAID5: Stripes data and parity.

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Figure 4

Step 4:

Under Disks item, select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array. If only two hard drives are installed, they will be automatically assigned to the array. Set the stripe block size (Figure 5) if necessary. The stripe block size can be set from 4 KB to 128 KB. Once you have selected the stripe block size, press <Enter>.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.0.0.1039 ICH10R wRAID5

Copyright(C) 2003-08 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed.

[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]

Name : Volume0

RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe)

Disks : Select Disks

Strip Size : 128KB

Capacity : 223.6 GB

Create Volume

[ HELP ]

The following are typical values:

RAID0 - 128KB

RAID10 - 64KB

RAID5 - 64KB

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Figure 5

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