Raid Setup - Clevo P570WM User Manual

RAID Setup

You may use your hard disks in combination with Striping
(RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1), Parity Across Disks
(RAID 5) or Recovery for either fault tolerance or perfor-
mance.
RAID Level
RAID 0 Identical drives reading and writing data in par-
allel to increase performance. RAID 0 imple-
(at lease two ments a striped disk array and the data is
hard disks broken into blocks and each block is written to
needed) a separate disk drive.
Identical drives in a mirrored configuration used
RAID 1 to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a
mirrored array fail, the mirrored drive (which
(at lease two contains identical data) will handle all the data.
hard disks When a new replacement drive is installed,
needed) data to the new drive is rebuilt from the mir-
rored drive to restore fault tolerance.
RAID 5 Identical drives (at least three drives must be
used) in a parity across disks configuration are
(three hard used to protect data and increase perfor-
disks mance. A RAID 5 array can withstand a single
needed) disk failure without losing access to data.
Two Identical drives copying data between a
Recovery
master and a recovery disk. This provides more
control over how data is copied between the
(at lease two
master and recovery drives, fast volume updates
hard disks
and the ability to view the data in Windows
needed)
Explorer.
Table 2 - RAID Description
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Description
Prepare the following before setting up your serial ATA
hard disks in RAID mode:
1. The Microsoft Windows 8.1 OS disc.
2. A hard disk installed in the Primary HDD bay.
AND
For RAID levels 0/1/Recovery: A second (identical) hard disk
installed in the Primary HDD bay.
For RAID level 5: A third (identical) hard disk installed in the
Secondary HDD bay.
3. The Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
4. A USB flash drive.
5. An operable computer (to copy files from the Device Drivers &
Utilities + User's Manual disc to the USB flash drive).
Note: All hard disks in a RAID should be identical (the
same size and brand) in order to prevent unexpected sys-
tem behavior.