Create Raid Group - Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal User Manual

Fields
This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields will be shown in the Device Summary window.
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Create RAID Group

This command displays a dialog box to let user create RAID group, user needs to specify the following parameters:
RAID Group Label: Provide a name for the RAID group
RAID Group: Select a group ID from the available ID list. Since the maximum number of RAID groups is limited to 9
so group ID can be from 1 to 9.
Configuration: Contiguous (for virtual disk)
Concatenated
Striped (for RAID 0)
Mirrored (for RAID 1)
Capacity: Select from a list of RAID group size, current options are from 1G to 100 GB, and MAX. Selecting MAX
will create the largest RAID set possible with the drive(s) selected.
Chunk Size Select one from the available list: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 (KB). RAID 1 set and virtual disk do not require this.
Chunk size is also known as stripe size.
Rebuild Priority: Select one from the available list: 1 to 10. RAID 0 set and virtual disk do not require this. 10 is a higher
level of rebuild priority which means that rebuild times will be faster but will take more CPU resources in
order to rebuild a failed RAID member. In contrast, selecting 1 will result in slower rebuild times but will
take the least amount of CPU resources to complete a rebuild.
After parameters are set, click on the Create button on the bottom to create the RAID array. The array will appear in the
Device Configuration Window of the SATARaid5 GUI.
If no other RAID sets are to be created, then click Cancel to exit the RAID creation window.
Go to the Disk Management Utility in Windows to initialize and format the newly created RAID set. Please refer to
7 Allocating Partitions in Windows for instructions on initialization and formatting.
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