Installing Serial Ata Hard Disks; Creating A Raid Driver Disk In Windows; Chapter 4: Raid Support - Asus ROG STRIX X370-F Gaming Manual

4.1.2

Installing Serial ATA hard disks

The motherboard supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance, install
identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array.
To install the SATA hard disks for a RAID conſ guration:
1. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays.
2. Connect the SATA signal cables.
3. Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive.
4.2 Creating a RAID driver disk
4.2.1

Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows

To install the RAID driver for Windows
1. During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you to select the installation
media containing the RAID driver.
2. Insert the support USB drive with RAID driver into the USB port, and then click
Browse.
3. Click the name of the device you've inserted, go to Drivers > RAID, and then select
the RAID driver for the corresponding OS version. Click OK.
4. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.
To set up a Windows
driver for your optical drive.
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® OS:
UEFI operating system under RAID mode, ensure to load the UEFI
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Chapter 4: RAID Support