System Software; Raid Setup For Windows 7 (Model C Only) - Clevo P150EM Concise User Manual

System Software

Your computer may already come with system software
pre-installed. Where this is not the case, or where you are
re-configuring your computer for a different system, you
will find this manual refers to Microsoft Windows 7 and
8.
HDD RAID Support (Model C Only)
Your hard disk(s) can be set up in AHCI mode or RAID
mode (for increased performance or protection). Note that
setting up your hard disk(s) in RAID mode needs to be
done prior to installing the Windows OS.
RAID Setup for Windows 7
See RAID Setup for Windows 7 (Model C Only) on
page 5.
RAID Setup for Windows 8
Refer to the expanded User's Manual on the Device Driv-
ers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
RAID Setup for Windows 7
(Model C Only)
You may use your hard disks in combination with Striping
(RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1), or Recovery for either
fault tolerance or performance.
RAID Level
Identical drives reading and writing data in parallel
to increase performance. RAID 0 implements a
RAID 0
striped disk array and the data is broken into
blocks and each block is written to a separate disk
(at lease two
drive.
hard disks
RAID 0 (a striped array) is not fault-tolerant. The
needed)
failure of one drive will result in the loss of all data
in the array.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used to
protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mir-
rored array fail, the mirrored drive (which contains
RAID 1
identical data) will handle all the data. When a new
replacement drive is installed, data to the new
(at lease two
drive is rebuilt from the mirrored drive to restore
hard disks
fault tolerance.
needed)
RAID 1 (mirrored array) provides full data protec-
tion, as data can simply be copied from a healthy
disk to a replacement for any failed disk.
Recovery Two identical drives copying data between a mas-
ter and a recovery disk. This provides more control
(at lease two over how data is copied between the master and
hard disks recovery drives, fast volume updates and the abil-
needed) ity to view the data in Windows Explorer.
Table 2 - RAID Description
Description
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