IntroductOn - MSI X79A-GD45 Plus seres User Manual

Intel RAID

Introducton

The manboard comes wth the Intel RAID controller that allows you to configure SATA
hard drves as RAID sets.
Intel RAID controller offers RAID level 0 (Strpng), RAID level 1 (Mrrorng and Du-
®
plexng), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Dstrbuted Party), RAID level 10 (A Strpe of
Mrrors).
RAID 0 breaks the data nto blocks whch are wrtten to separate hard drves. Spread-
ng the hard drve I/O load across ndependent channels greatly mproves I/O perfor-
mance.
RAID 1 provdes data redundancy by mrrorng data between the hard drves and pro-
vdes enhanced read performance.
RAID 5 Provdes data strpng at the byte level and also strpe error correcton nforma-
ton. Ths results n excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 s one of the
most popular mplementatons of RAID.
RAID 10 Not one of the orgnal RAID levels, multple RAID 1 mrrors are created, and a
RAID 0 strpe s created over these.
Important
The least number of hard drves for RAID 0 and RAID 1 s two. The least number of
hard drves for RAID 10 mode s four. And the least number of hard drves for RAID 5
mode s three.
All the nformaton/ volumes/ pctures lsted n your system mght dffer from the llustra-
tons n ths appendx.
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