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Caution• Before installation of the controller card, we recommend that users study this manual fi rst. This RAID
manual has more information on RAID architecture, RAID features, RAID installation, RAID settings and
Management software for the RAID5 GUI (Graphical User Interface).
• Windows Device Manager cannot recognize hard drives without the correct RAID settings in place.
• The working data on your existing hard drive may NOT work when you migrate it to a RAID Host Card
confi guration.
• After driver installation you can install the SATARAID5 GUI for RAID management. Before the
SATA RAID5 GUI installation, you must remove all existing SATARAID GUIs (or Java SATARAID GUI) to
ensure your new SATARAID5 GUI works without issues.
• RAID sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the SATARAID5 GUI setting
under Windows.
• If you’re using a used hard drive with the RAID5 card you must perform the “Delete RAID Set” under
the BIOS settings. The reason this is necessary is because the used hard drive has system data on it
which may cause recognition issues when confi guring it for use with the RAID5 card.
• RAID 0 and RAID1 setups require at least 2 drives, with RAID5 requiring 3 drives and RAID10 requiring
4 drives. If only one drive, make sure to have “Concatenate” or “Contiguous” setting.