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A. Create Array:

In the main screen, press ENTER on the Create RAID Disk Drive item. Then the RAID creation screen appears (Figure 5).

GIGABYTE Technology Corp. PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller BIOS V1.06.59

[ Create New RAID ]

Name: GRAID_

Level: 0-Stripe

Disks: Select Disk

Block: 128 KB

Size: 240 GB

Confirm Creation

[ RAID Disk Drive List ]

[ Hard Disk Drive List ]

 

 

Mode Name

Available

Type/Status

HDD0: ST3120026AS

120 GB

Non-RAID

HDD1: ST3120026AS

120 GB

Non-RAID

[ Help ]

Enter RAID Name

Enter a string between 1 to 16 characters in length for the created RAID drive to be identified by system BIOS or OS.

[

]-Move Cursor

[DEL,BS]-Delete Character

[ENTER]-Next

[ESC]-Abort

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5

In the RAID creation screen, the Create New RAID block displays all the items that need to be set for creating an array (Figure 5). The following procedure uses RAID 0 creation as an example.

Steps:

1.Enter Array Name: Under the Name item, enter an array name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) and press ENTER.

2.Select RAID Mode: Under the Level item, use UP or DOWN ARROW key to select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), or JBOD (Figure 6). Then press ENTER to move onto the next step.

GIGABYTE Technology Corp. PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller BIOS V1.06.59

[ Create New RAID ]

Name: GRAID

Level: 0-Stripe

Disks: Select Disk

Block: 128 KB

Size: 240 GB

Confirm Creation

[ RAID Disk Drive List ]

[ Hard Disk Drive List ]

 

 

Mode Name

Available

Type/Status

HDD0: ST3120026AS

120 GB

Non-RAID

HDD1: ST3120026AS

120 GB

Non-RAID

[ Help ]

 

Select RAID Level

RAID 0

-

Data striped for performance

RAID 1

-

Data mirrored for redundancy

JBOD

-

Data concatenated for huge

 

 

temporarily disk required

[ ]-Switch RAID Level

[ENTER]-Next

[ESC]-Abort

 

Figure 6

 

 

 

 

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Intel GA-N680SLI-DQ6 user manual Create Array, Steps

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