ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 3 1.3 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions 5 1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
BIOS environment. After you make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD or "Quick Installation Guide the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
next drive in the array. When any member disk fails, it will affect the entire array. JBOD is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance. RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Among the advantages of RAID 5configuration include - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
WARNING!! Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions. In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you want to "Clear Disk Data" or not. It is recommended to select "Yes", and then your future data building will operate under a clean environment. 4 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
functions, please follow below steps. STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [non-RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide RAID drivers needed for RAID mode, you have to select them separately. Please specify the first RAID driver and - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system. When you see "Where do you want to install Windows? " page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the "Load Driver" button on the left on the - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
1.4 Create Disk Array Power on your system. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, the below window appears. After rebooting your computer, wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press . The RAID - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
between 8KB and 128KB (8, 16, 32, 64, and 128KB). Then, you have to assign the disks. The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block. These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk, A. Tab to the Free - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
After assigning your RAID array disks, press to save your changes of RAID array disks. Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple channels, and each channel has a slave and a master. The adapter / - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install. 2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows XP / XP 64-bit Users A. Enter NVRAIDMAN RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
refer to the RAID functions your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in this section to create RAID arrays. The RAID items which may be of creating RAID 0. Please do the following: A. Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
D. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. E. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping, and leave the "Stripe Size" with its default value as shown in the following screen shot. 13 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
F. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. G. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set. 14 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. H. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. I. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. The RAID 0 is created successfully. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
B. Double click on Administrative Tools. C. Double click on Computer Management. D. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is displayed. E. The 153.38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier. To create a partition on it, right click on the Unallocated partition and - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 17
D. Deleting a RAID Array NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array. To delete an Array, please do the following. A. Launch the NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete (assuming that you have a RAID array already created) as shown in the following screen shot. - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 18
B. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. C. Click Finish and the array will be deleted and the following screen shot will appear showing all the free disks. A similar process can be applied to delete any array created by NVIDIA RAID. E. Rebuilding a RAID Array Rebuilding is the - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 19
D. Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. E. Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list, then click Next. The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears. 19 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 20
the background so as not to affect the performance of the system. Rebuilding Applies Only to RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 Arrays Rebuilding an array works only when using RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5. Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 and JBOD arrays. Rebuilding applies to a degraded fault tolerant - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 21
in a short period of time. 2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users A. Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 22
Click "Create array". Then you can start to build up RAID. B. Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 22 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 23
Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs. It is recommended to select "Custom". Click Next. Then, select the type of RAID array to create. You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next. Here we take Striping (RAID 0) for example to show you how to use Storage to create - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 24
After you decide the RAID Mode, you are allowed to select the Stripe Size. The default value of this item is 64K. Then click Next. Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next. 24 - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 25
Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. Click Finish to complete the steps of creating RAID array. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. A. Click on Start → Settings - ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi | RAID Installation Guide - Page 26
Right-click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created stripped array. 26
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NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide
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NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………….. 2
1.1 Introduction to RAID …………………………………….. 2
1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ……………………… 3
1.3 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit
With RAID Functions ……………………
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1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID
Functions ……………………
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1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID
Functions ……………………
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1.4 Create Disk Array ………………………………………… 8
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NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ………………… 11
2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows
XP / XP 64-bit Users …………………………………….. 11
2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows
Vista / Vista 64-bit Users ……………………………….. 21