ASRock Z77 Pro3 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
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 / VistaTM / VistaTM 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 - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
Disks Installation Intel Z77 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Rapid Storage. Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts. You - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
of RAID This motherboard adopts Intel southbridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
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 as mirroring alone. RAID 10 achieves high input / output rates by striping RAID 1 segments. In some instances, a RAID 10 configuration can sustain - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
2.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1. Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
document in the support CD, "Guide to Intel Rapid Storage", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information If you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in Windows® environment, install "SATA2 driver" from the Support CD again so that "Intel Rapid Storage" will - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
. Boot your system, and press key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press , then the main interface of BIOS setup utility will appear. Please set the option Configure SATA as to [RAID]. Save your change before you exit BIOS setup. 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
the Create Volume Menu, under Name item, please key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your RAID volume then press . Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level. You may select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), RAID 5 or RAID 10 for your RAID level. Press , and - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
If you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up or down keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press . The available values range from 8 KB to 128 KB. The default selection is - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
Press under the Create Volume item. The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Press to complete the setup of RAID. After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up. 10 - ASRock Z77 Pro3 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment. If you want to create an extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS. 2.6 Deleting RAID Volumes If you want to
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Con
fi
guration
1.
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation
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1.1
Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
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2
2.
Guide to RAID Con
fi
gurations
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3
2.1
Introduction of RAID
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3
2.2
RAID Con
fi
guration Precautions
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5
2.3
Installing Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/
Vista
TM
64-bit With RAID Functions
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2.4
Setting the BIOS RAID Items
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7
2.5
Con
fi
guring the Intel RAID BIOS
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2.6
Deleting RAID Volumes
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