Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L User Manual page 82

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.
[ ]-Change
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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GA-EP43-DS3LR/DS3L/S3L Motherboard
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.5.0.1013 ICH10R wRAID5
Copyright(C) 2003-08 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed.
[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
Name :
RAID Level :
Disks :
Strip Size :
Capacity :
RAID0: Stripes data (performance).
RAID1: Mirrors data (redundancy).
RAID10: Mirrors data and stripes the mirror.
RAID5: Stripes data and parity.
[TAB]-Next
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.5.0.1013 ICH10R wRAID5
Copyright(C) 2003-08 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed.
[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
Name :
RAID Level :
Disks :
Strip Size :
Capacity :
The following are typical values:
[TAB]-Next
Volume0
RAID0(Stripe)
Select Disks
128KB
223.6 GB
Create Volume
[ HELP ]
Choose the RAID level:
[ESC]-Previous Menu
Figure 4
Volume0
RAID0(Stripe)
Select Disks
128KB
223.6 GB
Create Volume
[ HELP ]
RAID0 - 128KB
RAID10 - 64KB
RAID5 - 64KB
[ESC]-Previous Menu
Figure 5
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[ENTER]-Select
[ENTER]-Select