ASRock A520M-HDV RAID Installation Guide

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  • ASRock A520M-HDV | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
    AMD RAID Installation Guide 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide ...2 1.1 Introduction to RAID...2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 4 1.3 Legacy RAID ROM Configuration 5 1.4 UEFI RAID Configuration ...11 2. AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide 20 1
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    1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD, then you can start to use the onboard RAID Option ROM Utility
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    RAID 5 (Block Striping with Distributed Parity) RAID 5 stripes data and distributes parity information across the physical drives along with the data blocks. This organization increases performance by accessing multiple physical drives simultaneously for each operation, as well as fault tolerance by
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    1.2 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
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    1.3 Legacy RAID ROM Configuration Use legacy RAID ROM to create and configure the RAID disk. STEP 1: Set up UEFI A. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. B. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration. C. Set the "SATA Mode" option to . D. Click to save to
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    Use the arrow keys to select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array and press . The selected hard drives will be shown in green. To use all of the hard drives, simply press to select all. Then press . Use the arrow keys to select a RAID level you want. Press to
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    Select a caching mode and press to proceed. Press to confirm and then press to return to the previous screen. When completed, you will see the new array on the main screen. Press to exit the RAID BIOS utility. 7
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    . C. Plug a USB drive into one of the USB port. D. Insert the Support CD into the DVD-ROM drive. E. Go to Tools Easy RAID Installer F. Follow instructions to finish the driver copy process. STEP 3.2: Download driver from ASRock's website A. Please download the "SATA Floppy Imaged driver" from
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    C. For 32bit OS, the driver is under /I386 directory. For 64bit OS, the driver is under /AMD64 directly. Please select the correct driver for your Windows version (Windows 10). D. Select "AMD-RAID Bottom Device" and then click . E. Click again to find the driver inside your USB flash
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    H. Select "AMD-RAID Config Device" and then click . I. After RAID driver is loaded, the RAID disk will show up. J. Please follow Windows installation instruction to finish the process. 10
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    1.4 UEFI RAID Configuration Set up a RAID array using UEFI Setup Utility. STEP 1: Set up UEFI and create a RAID array A. During system boot, press or key to enter UEFI setup utility. B. Go to Advanced Storage Configuration. C. Set the "SATA Mode" option to . D. Click to save
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    G. Click to save your changes and exit, and then enter the BIOS Setup again. H. After saving the previously changed settings via F10 and rebooting the system, "RAIDXpert2 Configuration Utility" submenu becomes available. I. Go to AdvancedRAIDXpert2 Configuration Utility Array Management, and
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    J. Go to AdvancedRAIDXpert2 Configuration Utility Array ManagementCreate Array Select "RAID Level" and then "Select Physical Disks". Change "Select Media Type" to "SSD" or leave at "BOTH". Select Check AllApply Changes 13
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    . C. Plug a USB drive into one of the USB port. D. Insert the Support CD into the DVD-ROM drive. E. Go to Tools Easy RAID Installer F. Follow instructions to finish the driver copy process. STEP 2.2: Download driver from ASRock's website A. Please download the "SATA Floppy Imaged driver" from
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    STEP 3: Windows installation Insert the USB drive with Windows 10 installation files. Then restart the system. While this system is booting, please press F11 to open the boot menu that is shown in this picture. It should list the USB drive as a UEFI device. Please select this to boot from. If the
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    C. Select "AMD-RAID Bottom Device" and then click . D. Load the second driver. E. Select "AMD-RAID Bottom Device" and then click . 16
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    F. After RAID driver is loaded, the RAID disk will show up. Load the Third driver. G. Select "AMD-RAID Bottom Device" and then click . H. Select unallocated space and then click . 17
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    I. Please follow Windows installation instruction to finish the process. 18
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    J. Go to Boot menu and set "Boot Option #1" to . 19
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    2. AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide Using RAIDXpert2 to Create RAID Array in Windows 1. Execute RAIDXpert2 in the Windows Programs menu. 20
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    2. When the login screen appears, type "admin" in the Login ID field. Type "admin" again in the Password field. 3. Create new username and password. Then log in to RAIDXpert with new username & password. 21
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    4. Be sure to delete the existing disk arrays before creating a new array. 5. To create array, Click on Array → Create. 22
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    6. Select the disks to be included in the RAID array. Select Array Type Enter Array Name & Array Size. Then click Create to create a RAID array. 7. Check if the array is created successfully. 23
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    8. In Disk Management, create partition and initialize the disk as GPT. 24
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AMD RAID Installation Guide
1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide
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1.1
Introduction to RAID
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1.2
RAID Configurations Precautions
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Legacy RAID ROM Configuration
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1.4
UEFI RAID Configuration
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AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide
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