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MS-7260 Mainboard Introduct ion System Requirement Operating System Support NVRAID supports the following operating systems: W indows XP RAID Arrays NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write times for many applications. RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data. RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. Spanning (JBOD): JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes into one large disk Summary of RAID Configurations Array RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0+1 JBOD Uses Non-critical data requiring high performance. Small databases or any other small capacity environment requiring fault tolerance. Critical data requiring high performance. Combining odd size drives into one big drive Advantages Drawbacks High data throughput. No fault tolerance. # Hard Disks m ultiple 100% data redundancy. Requires 2 drives for 2 the storage space of 1 drive. Optimized for both 100% data redundancy and perf orm anc e. Allows spare disks. Combines and uses the capacity of odd size drives. Requires 2 drives for 4+ the storage space of 1 drive-the same as RAID level 1. Decreases performance because of the difficulty in using drives concurrently or to optimize drives for different uses. M ul tiple Fault Tol eran ce None Yes Yes No B-2

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MS-7260 Mainboard
B-2
Introduct ion
System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
Windows XP
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section:
RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write
times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays.
Spanning (JBOD): JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes
into one large disk
Summary of RAID Configurations
Array
Uses
Advantages
Drawbacks
# Hard
Disks
Fault
Tolerance
RAID 0
Non-critical data
requiring high
performance.
High data throughput.
No fault tolerance.
multiple
None
RAID 1
Small databases or any
other small capacity
environment requiring
fault tolerance.
100% data
redundancy.
Requires 2 drives for
the storage space of 1
drive.
2
Yes
RAID 0+1
Critical data requiring
high performance.
Optimized for both
100% data
redundancy and
performance.
Allows spare disks.
Requires 2 drives for
the storage space of 1
drive
the same as
RAID level 1.
4+
Yes
JBOD
Combining odd size
drives into one big drive
Combines and uses
the capacity of odd
size drives.
Decreases
performance because
of the difficulty in
using drives
concurrently or to
optimize drives for
different uses.
Multiple
No