Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 RAID Setup Guide
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- Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 1
Configuring a RAID Set (Z690 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 System 7 Installing Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management 8 A. - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 2
used to set up a RAID set either with an M.2 SATA SSD or a SATA hard drive. (Note 3) Refer to the "Internal Connectors" section of the user's manuals for the installation notices for the M.2 and SATA connectors. - 2 - - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 3
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 And RST Configuration, make sure SATA Controller(s) is enabled. To create RAID configurations, go to Settings\IO Ports\VMD setup - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 4
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 - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 5
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 - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 6
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 - - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 7
your USB thumb drive. Method 2: 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 drive. Step 2: Boot from the Windows setup disc and - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 8
® Rapid Storage Technology driver to install and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Method 2: Launch the GIGABYTE APP Center. with Intel® Optane™ Memory can only be enabled on the M.2 connectors supported by the Chipset. 3. Only the system drive partition on the Intel - Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 | RAID Setup Guide - Page 9
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 (Z690 Series)
Preparing the Hard Drives and BIOS Settings
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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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Installing Intel
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Optane
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Memory and Storage Management
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A. Enabling an Intel
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Optane
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Memory
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B. Rebuilding an Array
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