Rosewill RSV-S8 user manual Welcome, Installation, Content, An Introduction To Raid

Server RSV-S8 User Manual

Content
1 WELCOME	3
1.1 PRECAUTION	3
1.2 FEATURES	3
1.2.1 DATA SECURITY	3
1.2.2 DATA PERFORMANCE	3
1.2.3 DATA VERSATILITY	3
1.3 EASE OF USE	4
1.4 SPECIFICATIONS	4
1.5 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS	4
1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS	4
2 AN INTRODUCTION TO RAID	5
2.1 RAID VOLUMES	5
2.2 SEGMENTING DISKS	5
2.3 RAID LEVELS	6
2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0)	6
2.3.2 DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1)	6
2.3.3 DISK MIRRORING AND STRIPING (RAID 10)	6
2.3.4 PARITY RAID (RAID 5)	6
2.3.5 CONCATENATION	7
2.4 RAID VOLUME STATUS	7
3 INSTALLATION	8
3.1 COMPONENTS	8
3.2 INSTALLING HARDWARE	8
3.3 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS 2000	8
3.3.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER	8
3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY	13
3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP	16
3.3.4 ALLOCATING PARTITION	16
3.4 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP (32/64-BIT)	22
3.4.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER	22
3.4.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY	24
3.4.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP	28
3.4.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 32-BIT	28
3.4.5 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT	34
3.5 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 (32/64-BIT)	40

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