Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 RAID Setup Guide

Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 Manual

Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 manual content summary:

  • Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 1
    Configuring a RAID Set (Intel® Z790/B760 Series) Preparing the Hard Drives and BIOS Settings 2 A. Installing hard drives...2 B. Configuring the BIOS settings 3 C. Configuring a RAID Array...3 Installing the RAID Driver and Operating
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    drives. The Intel® B760 Chipset doesn't include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 support for NVMe SSD storage devices. (Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create the "Internal Connectors" section of the user's manuals for the installation notices for the M.2 and SATA connectors. - 2 -
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    B. Configuring the BIOS settings Step 1: Turn on your computer and press to enter BIOS Setup during the POST (Power-On Self-Test). Go to Settings\IO Ports\SATA Configuration, make sure SATA Controller(s) is enabled. To create RAID configurations, go to Settings\IO Ports\VMD setup menu, set
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    with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) under the Name item and press . Then, select a RAID level (Figure 3). RAID levels supported include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 (the selections available depend on the number of the hard drives being installed). Next, use the
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    Step 4: After setting the capacity, move to Create Volume and press to begin. (Figure 5) Figure 5 After completing, you'll be brought back to the Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology screen. Under RAID Volumes you can see the new RAID volume. To see more detailed information, press on
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    Delete RAID Volume To delete a RAID array, press on the volume to be deleted on the Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology screen. After entering the RAID VOLUME INFO screen, press on Delete to enter the Delete screen. Press on Yes (Figure 7). Figure 7 - 6 -
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    driver first during the OS installation process. Refer to the steps below: Step 1: Go to GIGABYTE's website, browse to the motherboard model's web page, download the Intel SATA Preinstall driver file on the Support\Download\SATA RAID/AHCI page, unzip the file and copy the files to your USB thumb
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    system, make sure your Internet connection works properly. Launch the GIGABYTE Control Center (GCC). On the "Not Installed\New Drivers" screen, select Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver to install. Follow the on-screen instructions to continue. When completed, restart the system. A. Enabling an
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    B. Rebuilding an Array Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 arrays. The procedures below assume a new drive is added to replace a failed drive to rebuild a RAID 1
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Configuring a RAID Set
(Intel
®
Z790/B760 Series)
Preparing the Hard Drives and BIOS Settings
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2
A. Installing hard drives
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2
B. Configuring the BIOS settings
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3
C. Configuring a RAID Array
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3
Installing the RAID Driver and Operating System
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7
Installing Intel
®
Optane
Memory and Storage Management
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8
A. Enabling an Intel
®
Optane
Memory
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8
B. Rebuilding an Array
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