Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R User Manual page 74

Step 3:
After entering the CREATE VOLUME MENU screen, enter a volume name with 1~16 letters (letters
cannot be special characters) under the Name item and press <Enter>. Then, select a RAID level
(Figure 4). There are four RAID levels supported: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5 (the selections
available depend on the number of the hard drives being installed). Press <Enter> to proceed.
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Step 4:
Under Disks item, select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array. If only two hard drives are
installed, they will be automatically assigned to the array. Set the stripe block size (Figure 5) if
necessary. The stripe block size can be set from 4 KB to 128 KB. Once you have selected the stripe
block size, press <Enter>.
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[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
Name : Volume0
RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe)
Disks : Select Disks
Strip Size : 128KB
Capacity : 223.6 GB
Create Volume
[ HELP ]
Choose the RAID level:
RAID0- Stripes data (performance).
RAID1- Mirrors data (redundancy).
RAID10- Mirrors data and stripes the mirror.
RAID5- Stripes data and parity.
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Figure 4
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[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
Name : Volume0
RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe)
Disks : Select Disks
Strip Size : 128KB
Capacity : 223.6 GB
Create Volume
[ HELP ]
The following are typical values:
RAID0 -
RAID10 -
RAID5 -
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Figure 5
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[ENTER]-Select
128KB
64KB
64KB
[ENTER]-Select