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System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
W indows XP Home Edition
W indows XP Professional Edition
W indows 2000 Professional
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section:
RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write
times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays.
Spanning (JBOD): JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different s i z e s
into one large disk.
Summary of RAID Configurations
Array
Uses
RAID 0
Non-critical data
requiring high
performance.
RAID 1
Small databases or any
other small capacity
environment requiring
fault tolerance.
RAID 0+1
Critical data requiring
high performance.
JBOD
Combining odd size
drives into one big drive
MSI Reminds You...
Please note that users cannot install OS, either WinME or Win98, in
their SATA hard drive. Under these two OSs, SATA can not support.
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Introduction
Advantages
Drawbacks
High data throughput.
No fault tolerance.
100% data
Requires 2 drives for
redundancy.
the storage space of 1
drive.
Optimized for both
Requires 2 drives for
100% data
the storage space of 1
redundancy and
drive—the same as
performance.
RAID level 1.
Allows spare disks.
Combines and uses
Decreases
the capacity of odd
performance because
size drives.
of the difficulty in
using drives
concurrently or to
optimize drives for
different uses.
# Hard
Fault
Disks
Tolerance
multiple
None
2
Yes
4+
Yes
Multiple
No
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