Creating Spare Drive - MSI K8N Diamond User Manual

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4. If manual configuration is selected, the chunk size of RAID Sets can be selected.
5. If auto configuration is selected, BIOS will select RAID member drives automatically.
6. Select RAID set size with and keys.
7. After the RAID set size is set, the message "Are You Sure?" will display before
completing the configuration. Answer "N" to abort the creation of the new RAID
set, or "Y" to proceed with the RAID set creation.
8. RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARaid GUI. If you have
excess capacity left on your hard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS, you
can later go to the SATARaid GUI to create additional logical drives that fully
utilize the capacity on all your hard drives.

Creating Spare Drive

If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be
allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID
1 set.
1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select "Create RAID set"
2. Select "Spare Drive" and press Enter.
3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.
4. Select spare drive size with and keys.
5. After the spare drive size is set, the message "Are You Sure?" will display
before completing the configuration. Answer "N" to abort the creation of the spare
drive, or "Y" to proceed with the spare drive creation.
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