Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R User Manual page 88

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). RAID
levels supported include RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery, RAID 10, and RAID 5 (the selections available depend
on the number of the hard drives being installed). Press <Enter> to proceed.
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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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Appendix
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.9.0.1023 PCH-D wRAID5
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[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
RAID Level :
Strip Size :
RAID0: Stripes data (performance).
RAID1: Mirrors data (redundancy).
Recovery: Copies data between a master and a recovery disk.
RAID10: Mirrors data and stripes the mirror.
RAID5: Stripes data and parity.
[TAB]-Next
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.9.0.1023 PCH-D wRAID5
Copyright(C) 2003-09 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]
RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe)
Strip Size :
The following are typical values:
RAID0
RAID10 - 64KB
RAID5
[TAB]-Next
Name : Volume0
RAID0(Stripe)
Disks : Select Disks
128KB
Capacity : 111.7 GB
Sync : N/A
Create Volume
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Choose the RAID level:
[ESC]-Previous Menu
Figure 4
Name : Volume0
Disks : Select Disks
128KB
Capacity : 111.7 GB
Sync : N/A
Create Volume
[ HELP ]
- 128KB
- 64KB
[ESC]-Previous Menu
Figure 5
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[ENTER]-Select
[ENTER]-Select