Raid Configurations - Asus P5WD2 Premium User Manual

5.4

RAID configurations

The motherboard comes with the Silicon Image
Southbridge RAID controllers that allow you to configure IDE and Serial ATA
hard disk drives as RAID sets. The motherboard supports the following

RAID configurations.

R A I D 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and R A I D 0 R A I D 0 R A I D 0 R A I D 0
write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same
work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of
a single disk alone, thus improving data access and storage. Use of two
new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
R A I D 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data R A I D 1 R A I D 1 R A I D 1 R A I D 1
from one drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array
management software directs all applications to the surviving drive as it
contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID
configuration provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the
entire system. Use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive
for this setup. The new drive must be of the same size or larger than the
existing drive.
R A I D 1 0 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity R A I D 1 0 R A I D 1 0
R A I D 1 0 R A I D 1 0
(redundancy data) having to be calculated and written. With the RAID 10
configuration you get all the benefits of both RAID 0 and RAID 1
configurations. Use four new hard disk drives or use an existing drive and
three new drives for this setup.
R A I D 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard R A I D 5 R A I D 5 R A I D 5 R A I D 5
disk drives. Among the advantages of RAID 5 configuration include better
HDD performance, fault tolerance, and higher storage capacity. The RAID 5
configuration is best suited for transaction processing, relational database
applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems.
Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup.
I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l I n t e l ® M a t r i x S t o r a g e M a t r i x S t o r a g e M a t r i x S t o r a g e. The Intel M a t r i x S t o r a g e M a t r i x S t o r a g e
by the ICH7R chip allows you to create a RAID 0 and a RAID 1 set using
only two identical hard disk drives. The Intel
creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0
and RAID 1 sets. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk
drive partition size without losing any data.
If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a
created RAID set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a
floppy disk before you install an operating system to the selected hard
disk drive. Refer to section "5.6 Creating a RAID driver disk" for details.
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