Guide to SATA Hard Dis k s
Installation a nd RAID Configuration
1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2
1.1 Serial A T A (SAT A) Hard Disks Installation...............2
2. Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 3
2.1 Introduction of RAID ............................................... 3
2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 5
2.3 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
64-bit With RAID Functions .................................... 6
2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items .................................. 7
2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS............................. 7
2.6 Deleting RAID Volume.......................................... 11
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1. Guide to SAT A Hard Dis ks Installation
1.1 Serial A TA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
Intel HM77 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID
functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1 and Intel Rapid Storage. Please
read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully. You may
install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage
devices. For SATA installation guide, please refer to Serial ATA
(SATA) Hard Disks Installation of “User Manual” in the support CD.
This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports.
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2. Guide to RAID Configurations
2.1 Introduction of RAID
This motherboard adopts Intel HM77 chipset that integrates RAID
controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage function
with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section
will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to
configure RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage settings.
RAID
The term “RAID” stands for “Redundant Array of Independent
Disks”, which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives
into one logical unit. For optimal performance, please install
identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a
RAID set.
RAID 0 (Data Striping)
RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes two identical hard disk
drives to read and write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. It will
improve data access and storage since it will double the data
transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks
perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data
transfer rate.
WARNING!!
Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it
does not provide any fault tolerance. Hot-Plug any HDDs of the
RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss.
RAID 1 (Data Mirroring)
RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an
identical image of data from one drive to a second drive. It
provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the
entire system since the disk array management software will
direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a
complete copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails.
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Intel Rapid Storage
The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to
create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk
drives. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions
on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets.
This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive
partition size without losing any data.
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