MSI 770 C45 User Guide - Page 120

Creating Spare Drive

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MS-7125 ATX Mainboard 4. If manual configuration is selected, the chunk size of Striped Sets can be selected. 5. If auto configuration is selected, BIOS will select RAID member drives automatically. 6. Select RAID set size with and keys. 7. After the RAID set size is set, the message "Are You Sure?" will display before completing the configuration. Answer "N" to abort the creation of the new RAID set, or "Y" to proceed with the RAID set creation. 8. RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARaid5 GUI. If you have excess capacity left on your hard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS, you can later go to the SATARaid5 GUI to create additional logical drives that fully utilize the capacity on all your hard drives. Creating Spare Drive If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID 1 set. 1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select "Create RAID set" 2. Select "Spare Drive" and press Enter. 3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter. 4. Select spare drive size with and keys. 6-8

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4. If manual configuration is selected, the chunk size of Striped Sets can be
selected.
5. If auto configuration is selected, BIOS will select RAID member drives
automatically.
6. Select RAID set size with
and
keys.
7. After the RAID set size is set, the message “Are You Sure?” will display before
completing the configuration. Answer “N” to abort the creation of the new RAID
set, or “Y” to proceed with the RAID set creation.
8. RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARaid5 GUI. If you have
excess capacity left on your hard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS, you
can later go to the SATARaid5 GUI to create additional logical drives that fully
utilize the capacity on all your hard drives.
Creating Spare Drive
If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be
allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID
1 set.
1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select “Create RAID set”
2. Select “Spare Drive” and press Enter.
3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.
4. Select spare drive size with
and
keys.