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1. Introduction of RAID
This motherboard adopts a chipset that supports RAID.
The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of Inde-
pendent Disks", which is a method of 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. The fol-
lowing are common examples of RAID. Please refer to
the user manual for the types of RAID your motherboard
supports, and notice that other requirements such as a
RAID supporting disk drive and operating system are
also crucial for creating a RAID volume.
RAID 0 (Data Striping)
RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes
two identical hard disk drives to read and
write data in parallel, interleaved stacks.
It will improve data access and storage
since it will double the data transfer rate of
a single disk alone while the two hard disks
perform the same work as a single drive,
but at a sustained data transfer rate and it
has no fault tolerance.
RAID 1 (Data Mirroring)
RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies
and maintains an identical image of data
from one drive to a second drive. It pro-
vides data protection and increases fault
tolerance to the entire system since the
disk array management software will direct
all applications to the surviving drive as it
contains a complete copy of the data in the
other drive if one drive fails.
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