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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2
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Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ............... 2
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Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 3
2.1
Introduction of RAID ............................................... 3
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RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 5
2.3
Setting the BIOS RAID Items .................................. 6
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Configuring ULi RAID BIOS .................................... 6
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Main Menu ................................................. 7
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Drive Select Menu ................................... 10
2.4.3
RAID Array List ......................................... 10
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Using ULi Windows RAID Utility .................................... 11
3.1
How to Create RAID under Windows ................... 11
3.2
How to Delete RAID under Windows ................... 14
3.3
How to Migrate RAID under Windows .................. 15
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ......2 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ....2 Guide to RAID Configurations ......... 3 Introduction of RAID ..........3 RAID Configuration Precautions ......5 Setting the BIOS RAID Items ........ -
Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ULi M1697 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, and RAID 5. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. -
Page 3: Guide To Raid Configurations
Guide to RAID Configurations 2.1 Introduction of RAID RAID The term “RAID” stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”, which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit. For optimal performance, please install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a RAID set. - Page 4 JBOD JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives) is also called data spanning. It will expands the capacity of your drive and results in a useable total capacity since it will make several hard disk types configured as a single hard disk, and the hard drives are simply hooked up in series.
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Page 5: Raid Configuration Precautions
2.2 RAID Configurations Precautions Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for each drive. -
Page 6: Setting The Bios Raid Items
2.3 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration. Boot your system, and press <F2> key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press <Enter>, then the main interface of BIOS setup utility will appear. -
Page 7: Main Menu
2.4.1 Main Menu In Main Menu, you have the following options to operate RAID: Create RAID 0 Stripe x2 for Performance 1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. An ‘S’ flashing cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for the user to choose the first drive for RAID 0. 2. - Page 8 4. Press ‘Y’, and then the necessary information will be written to drives, which may destroy the original data in the drives. 5. Next, the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name is ‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘Z’, ‘a’-‘z’, space and underscore.
- Page 9 5. Next the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name is ‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘Z’, ‘a’-‘z’, space and underscore. Create RAID 5 for Reliability 1.
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Page 10: Drive Select Menu
Delete RAID Setting & Partition When RAID BIOS detects a broken RAID, the user can use Delete RAID Setting & Partition to delete the broken RAID. 1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. An ‘E’ flash cursor appears at the ‘Drive Select Menu’... -
Page 11: Using Uli Windows Raid Utility
Using ULi Windows RAID Utility 3.1 How to Create RAID under Windows You can create RAID arrays in either the RAID BIOS setup menu as previously described or under Windows Utility. After the driver and utility are installed correctly, you can find ULi RAID utility from Windows Programs as shown below, or find ULi RAID Utility at task bar. - Page 12 Click the desired drive from the ‘Available Drives’ list, use the right arrow key to move the drives that you plan to use to the ‘Selected Drives’ list. You can select array type from the ‘RAID Type’ pull- down menu and select stripe size for RAID 0 from the ‘Stripe Size’ pull-down menu.
- Page 13 Key in array name in ‘RAID Name’. * The Create Option is active for RAID 1, 5 and RAID 0+1 only. The ‘Create Only’ option will destroy data in both of the selected drives. The ‘Dupli cate/Rebuild’ option will keep the source drive data and copy source drive data into the target drive.
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Page 14: How To Delete Raid Under Windows
3.2 How to Delete RAID under Windows If you wants to delete existing or newly created RAID, click on ‘Delete RAID’ tab on the main Configuration menu. Click on the RAID from ‘Available RAID’ list, then move the selected RAID to ‘Selected RAID’... -
Page 15: How To Migrate Raid Under Windows
3.3 How to Migrate RAID under Windows Select new array type from the ‘RAID Type’ pull-down menu and select new stripe size for RAID from ‘Stripe Size’ pull-down menu. Input array name in ‘RAID Name’. The following is an example of migration from RAID 0x2 to RAID 5x3. - Page 16 Click the desired drive or RAID from the ‘Available Drives’ list. The selected drive or RAID will be moved to ‘Selected Drives’ list by clicking the right arrow key. Click on ‘OK’ or ‘Apply’ to start RAID type migration. After the drives and type are configured, a dialog box appears to warn you that the next action will destroy information in the drives.