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7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions 7 1.4 Create Disk Array 8 2. 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 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit
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RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under 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
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to store files onto the 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
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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
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functions, please follow below steps. STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your
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. Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide in the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide STEP 4: Install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit OS
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instruction to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / 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 bottom to load the NVIDIA® RAID
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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 prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading
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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 Disks section. The first disk in the list is selected. B. Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right-arrow
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changes of RAID array given in the Loc (location) columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists. For example: 1 . 0 . M 1: Channel - Typically, channel Channel 1, controller 1, Master Finally, the Array List window appears, where you can review the RAID arrays that you have set up. Healthy NVIDIA
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. 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
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to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard according to the SATA / SATAII HDDs amount you install. Please 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. The above screen shot shows that there is a Mirrored
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data on the newly added drive. After creating a mirrored array, you can rebuild the array using the following steps: A. Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility. B. Right-click on Mirroring. Then the popup menu appears. C. From the popup menu, click Rebuild Array. The NVIDIA Rebuild
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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
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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 array You can
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in a short period of time. 2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / 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
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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
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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 Striping
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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
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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
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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