Chapter 4: Raid Support; Raid Configurations - Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Manual

Chapter 4: RAID Support
RAID Support
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RAID configurations

The motherboard supports Intel
and RAID 10 solution.
If you want to install a Windows
set, you have to create a RAID driver disk and load the RAID driver during OS installation.
Refer to section 4.2 Creating a RAID driver disk for details.
4.1.1 RAID definitions
RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in
parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a
sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone, thus improving data access
and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
RAID 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to
a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all applications
to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID
two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be
of the same size or larger than the existing drive.
RAID 5 strips both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Among
relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems.
Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup.
RAID 10 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity (redundancy data) having
and three new drives for this setup.
ROG MAXIMUS X HERO
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Rapid Storage Technology with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
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operating system to a hard disk drive included in a RAID
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