RAID Utility for Windows User Manual

RAID Software

1. Getting Start

The “RAID Software” is a Windows-based software utility with
graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to
configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237
SATA controller.

After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time
when your Windows OS is started. An icon will appear in the
system tray of the tool bar to indicate that GUI software is currently
running.

Just double click on the small icon to call out the main interface of the
software.

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2. Create Disk Array

1. You may click on one of the three buttons to create different
types of disk array– RAID 1, Span, and RAID 0.
Then a “Select Array Creating Method” will be prompted.

Auto:
The software will configure the available hard disk drives to be a
disk array. User can modify the hard disk drives later. It is
strongly recommended to use this method.
Custom:
Disk array is arranged by user.

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2. Click “Auto” button. The “Creating Array” window will pop up.
If you select “Custom”, the “Available Disks” window will list the
available disk drives for array-creating. Select a disk drive and
click right arrow button to add the specific disk drive to array.
After adding a disk drive, user can also remove the selected disk
drive from array. Click the disk drive in “Array Disks” windows,
then click left arrow button to remove the selected disk drive.

Press “Create” button to create or “Cancel” button to cancel it.

After you pressed the “Create” button, a warning message will
pop up. Click “Yes ” to finish the creation of disk array, or “No” to
cancel.

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3. A message box will pop up to prompt user that the disk array has
been created successfully and ask user whether to restart the
computer. Click “Yes” to restart the computer or click “No” to skip
restarting. New disk array setting will take effect only after
restarting.

Create RAID 1

You can reserve the data on the source drive after clicking “Create”
button when you create a RAID 1 array.

There is a limitation if user wants to keep the data on the source drive ­the capacity of the mirror drive must be greater or equal to the source
drive, otherwise the RAID 1 can’t be created.

If user wants to keep data in the source drive, RAID tool will ask user to
synchronize the mirror drive after the system’s rebooting.

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Create JBOD

The data in the first disk drive of JBOD array can be reserved when a
JBOD array is created.

The data on the first disk drive will be reserved and the other disk
drives in JBOD will be expanded behind the first disk drive and become
free space.

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